THE YEAR THAT THE UNIVERSE GOT BIGGER

The universe expanded in 1920. That was the year that astronomer Harlow Shapley convinced fellow scientists that the galaxy was at least 10 times larger than they had previously thought.

Tiramisu, with a name that literally translates to “pick me-up,” is a classic Italian dessert that also has become well-known in the United States. The primary ingredient is Mascarpone, an Italian cheese, made from cream. Connoisseurs say the cheese is sweet and rich, very much like buttercream icing.

Slugs each have a pneumostome or air hole on the side of their bodies for breathing. They may also absorb oxygen directly through their moist skin.

Bram Stoker’s novel, “Dracula,” was originally titled “The Un-Dead.”

At one point, during the Battle of Jutland in World War I, as British ships were pursuing the German High Seas Fleet under cover of darkness, the British Admiralty lost contact with many of its boats. But German cryptographers were picking up messages from the lost warships and keeping their own ships apprised of British positions. England’s own cryptographers could not detect the weak wireless signals from their ships, so in a turnabout play, they picked up and decoded the German messages, which they used to relocate the British fleet.