• The newsletter of the Procrastinators’ Club of America is called Last Month’s Newsletter.
• Samuel Johnson’s 1755 Dictionary defines dross as “the recrement or despumation of metals.”
• A sphere of radius n kilometers has almost exactly the same volume as a cube of side n miles. (Randall Munroe)
• Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid.
• “Henry James chews more than he bites off.” — Clover Adams

“There exist only two kinds of modern mathematics books: ones which you cannot read beyond the first page and ones which you cannot read beyond the first sentence.” — Physics Nobelist Yang Chen-Ning