The first police car was bought in Akron, Ohio in 1899; its first assignment was to pick up a drunk man
Part of the profits from Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” were invested in the production of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”
A dance to die for: The mysterious phenomenon of Medieval Europe that drove people to dance until collapse
Not being Italian was no obstacle to James Caan, who portrayed Sonny in “The Godfather,” winning “Italian of the Year” – twice
The legendary Edinburgh Castle occupies the site of a 350-million-year-old plug of an extinct volcano
Harry Houdini once sued a police officer who accused him of fraud and won, by opening the judge’s safe