1. Light bulbs in the New York City subway and other train systems have left-hand screws. The backwards design is to prevent people from stealing bulbs for use at home. (Ohhh . . . is THAT why they hang the toilet paper rolls the wrong way at work?) (???)
2. Eleanor Roosevelt refused to let a Secret Service member travel with her when she was First Lady . . . she just carried a pistol.
3. The guy who invented cotton candy was a dentist from Tennessee.
