The Iraq war

In 2002, George Bush did not state that he explicitly wanted to go to war with Iraq but rather had Congress sign off on the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 which would later become the Iraq war.

No beer drinking in U.S. commercials

In the U.S., beer commercials cannot show people drinking beer.

Father Maximilian Kolbe

Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish priest who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland.

Suharto

Suharto was an Indonesian dictator who improved the middle class and ruled a secular democracy but whose legacy is riddled with brutal corruption. He died January 27, 2008.

Superdelegates

Superdelegates are delegates to a presidential nominating convention who are not bound by the decisions of party primaries or caucuses. They are elected officeholders and party officials.

Tom Thumb

Other than the store my mom shops at sometimes, General Tom Thumb was an actual person whose real name was Charles Sherwood Stratton. He achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum.

Nellie Bly

Inspired by Jules Verne's novel Around the World in 80 Days, Nellie Bly became the first person to make the ground-breaking trip and did it in 72 days. But her greatest contribution to society was as an undercover exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within.

Songbird

Songbird is an open source, open web project built on the Mozilla platform that was released on January 23, 2008.

Daniel Pearl

Daniel Pearl was an American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002.

Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher who wanted his body preserved at the University of London. His actual head is located at his feet.

Hillary's Wal-Mart job

Hillary Clinton used to hold a corporate position at Wal-Mart.

Gutenberg

The guy who invented the printing press was Johannes Gutenberg.

London Bridge is falling down

The London Bridge is in Arizona.

Jim Thorpe

American athlete Jim Thorpe was of mixed Native American and white ancestry. He was raised as a Sac and Fox, and named Wa-Tho-Huk, roughly translated as "Bright Path".

Psychological egoism

Psychological egoism is the view that humans are always motivated by rational self-interest, even in what seem to be acts of altruism.

First czar of Russia

Ivan IV was the first ruler of Russia to assume the title czar.

Chauvinism

Chauvinism means "prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's group."