1. There was a tradition in ancient Greek theater that character deaths almost never happened on stage. No matter how important the characters were, deaths almost always occurred off-stage, and were announced by a messenger . . . with the body sometimes being shown later.
2. The last time a third-party candidate got any electoral votes was in 1968. George Wallace ran on a platform promoting segregation, and won five states . . . Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
3. There’s a city called Rome on every continent besides Antarctica. There are a few in the United States. There’s also one in Ecuador, Australia, Indonesia, Lesotho, and of course Italy.
4. “Bohemian Rhapsody” started the music video trend. Queen made a promotional video for the song in 1975, and it was such a hit that record companies started making videos for all hit songs.
