Trivia For September 28, 2026

Nylon stockings were cheap, durable and sheer compared to their cotton and silk counterparts. Up to four million pairs were being purchased daily after their introduction. Wartime shortages during World War II led to a thriving black market in 'nylons'. And even after the war, riots ensued until large-scale production resumed.

The first edition was published in July 1954. Tolkien had originally envisioned The Lord of the Rings as a single-volume work with extensive appendices, but the publisher decided to split the work into three parts.

The slogan started in the 1950s at a franchise in Phoenix, Arizona when a customer called-in to complain that a person in a commercial was licking his fingers, and the manager responded "Well, it's finger lickin' good".

These elements all have very similar properties: they are all shiny, silvery-white, somewhat reactive metals at standard temperature and pressure. Radium was discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie in 1898. It was widely used in self-luminous paints, until its toxicity and carcinogenic properties became widely known.

The twenty arrondissements (or districts) are arranged in the form of a clockwise spiral, often likened to a snail shell, starting from the middle of the city, with the first on the Right Bank of the Seine.