• Thus far in 2006, the media (most notably The New York Times) has "forcibly declassified" only slightly fewer documents than the U.S. federal government and military have done on their own.

• According to MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) records, 16 stunt people have died in the creation of the 50 highest-grossing films of the last 20 years.

• The original draft of the United States Constitution contains one spelling error.

• The heirs of the H.G. Wells estate brought a copyright infringement suit against Ralph Ellison in 1954 following the publication of The Invisible Man, but it was settled out of court for an amount undisclosed, but believed to be $1.12.

• According to researchers at the University of Vermont, out of 61 common American foods tested, cheeseburgers would allow a person to survive longest if it were the only food eaten.