Blimpie shed the vast majority of its locations over the past 25 years, a decline driven by overexpansion and a revolving door of leadership that never managed to reverse the downward trajectory. Notably, Blimpie actually predates Subway by a year, making it the older of the two chains.

Robin Williams had a notable political figure in his family tree. His great-great-grandfather, Anselm Joseph McLaurin, served as the 34th governor of Mississippi from 1896 to 1900 and represented the state in the U.S. Senate on two separate occasions, first from 1894 to 1895 and again from 1901 until his death in December 1909. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Portuguese stands apart from other Romance languages in how it handles the days of the week. Rather than naming them after Roman gods, Saturday is rooted in the Sabbath and Sunday translates roughly as “God’s day,” while the remaining weekdays simply follow a numbered sequence meaning second through sixth fair.

Saudi Arabia is among a very small number of countries where no Christian churches exist at all. Even in other Muslim-majority nations, churches are typically permitted to serve at least foreign workers and tourists. In Saudi Arabia, non-Muslim worship is restricted entirely to private settings behind closed doors.

No communist country ever achieved true wage equality in practice, with many framing their systems as socialism on the path toward eventual communism. Two came closer than most. Under Mao Zedong, urban Chinese workers saw relatively narrow wage differences, while rural laborers operated under a work-point system that largely bypassed money altogether. Cambodia under Pol Pot went further still, abolishing currency entirely, herding nearly the entire population into agricultural labor, and distributing roughly equal rations to all. Both regimes produced enormous death tolls through a combination of deliberate policy and catastrophic mismanagement, with Pol Pot’s era being particularly devastating.

Most Amish communities do use washing machines, but ones powered by fuel sources like gasoline rather than electricity drawn from a public grid.

Romell Broom was an Ohio death row inmate convicted of a 1984 murder. In 2009, the state’s attempt to execute him failed after officials were unable to establish a viable IV line for lethal injection. He was eventually rescheduled for execution in 2022, but died of COVID-19 in prison in 2020, before that date arrived.

The “BB” in BB gun refers to a specific historical shot size that falls between B and BBB classifications, originally denoting a lead shot diameter of 0.180 inches used in early air rifles. The widespread assumption that it stands for “ball bearing” is a misconception.

The name Allen or Allan has Celtic roots and is considered a variant of Alan, generally understood to mean “handsome” or “cheerful.”

Despite the famous pen name, Dr. Seuss was never a real doctor. His actual surname was Geisel, and he attended Dartmouth College as a young man. In recognition of his generous philanthropic support of the institution over the years, Dartmouth honored him by naming its medical school after him. It is now known as the Geisel School of Medicine.