- After six months at the off-Broadway New York Shakespeare Festival Theatre, Hair opened at the Biltmore Theatre in New York, in 1968. It was the first rock-musical to play on the Great White Way.
- After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
- Air pollution may contribute to two percent of all deaths in the US, some 50,000 cases per year. A nine-year study of US cities showed a strong correlation between death rates and periods of significant pollution.
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- Alaska and California, with 8 each, are the US states with the most national park sites.
- Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He declined saying he had no head for problems.
- Albert Einstein was thought to be suffering from dyslexia, as he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.
- Alcohol is added to soap to make it clear.
- Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother, they were both deaf.
- All 3 lead actors from the film Rebel Without a Cause died under tragic circumstances. Natalie wood drowned, James Dean died in a car crash and Sal Mineo was stabbed to death by a stranger.
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