Unless it’s a leap year:

• January begins on the same day of the week as October.
• February begins on the same day of the week as March and November.
• April begins on the same day of the week as July.
• December begins with the same day of the week as September.
• No other month begins on the same day of the week as May or June.

This year Mensa accepted a new youngest member. Three-year-old Mikhail Ali of Bramley, Leeds, England, has an IQ of 137; he’s one of only 30 members under 10.

But he’s not the all-time youngest member — that’s Ben Woods, who was 2 years and 10 months old when he joined in the mid-1990s.

If Wal-Mart were a country, it would have the 33rd largest economy in the world, with a GDP between Ukraine’s and Colombia’s.

The world record for high-speed bicycling keeps going up, of course, but the record for low-speed bicycling has remained unchallenged for 40 years. In 1965, Tsugunobu Mitsuishi of Tokyo, Japan, remained perfectly stationary for 5 hours and 25 minutes.

Moscow has the most heavily used metro system in the world, carrying 8-9 million passengers on a normal weekday. It has 170 stations and 12 lines, including an unusual “ring line” that circles the city.

According to legend, this came about when Stalin’s coffee cup left a ring on one of the blueprints. Historians dispute this account — but on maps, the ring line is always printed in brown.

Famous tall women:

• Janet Reno – 6’3″
• Venus Williams – 6’1″
• Ann Coulter – 6′
• Geena Davis – 6′
• Allison Janney – 6′
• Elle MacPherson – 6′
• Brooke Shields – 6′
• Uma Thurman – 6′
• Tyra Banks – 5’11”
• Famke Janssen – 5’11”
• Anna Nicole Smith – 5’11”
• Sigourney Weaver – 5’11”
• Naomi Campbell – 5’10”
• Diana, Princess of Wales – 5’10”
• Jenna Elfman – 5’10”
• Daryl Hannah – 5’10”
• Queen Latifah – 5’10”
• Charlize Theron – 5’10”
• Liv Tyler – 5’10”
• Serena Williams – 5’10”

Until 1999, Abe Lincoln was the only person to appear on both the front and back of the same United States coin (he’s just barely visible on the back of the penny, sitting in his memorial):

Now George Washington can claim the same honor with the release of New Jersey state quarter, whose reverse shows him crossing the Delaware River:

The United States sees 1 parachuting fatality per 80,000 jumps. “There are old jumpers and there are bold jumpers,” says a maxim, “but there are no old, bold jumpers.”