SEARS TOWER IS THE TALLEST

The tallest building in the United States is Chicago’s Sears Tower, standing 1,450 feet.

Emergency room doctors say that if you could schedule a medical crisis, it would be best to aim for a Wednesday, Thursday or Friday morning. Emergency rooms are busiest from noon to midnight, and most surgeries and doctor’s appointments are scheduled early in the week, making it more difficult to get quick service and quality care on short notice.

Although born in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright claimed for years that he hadn’t arrived in the world until 1869. At least one biographer suggests that the architect lied about his age in order to make it seem that he had been particularly precocious with impressive, early success in the 1890s.

The popularity of plastic Tupperware had grown to the point that by the year 2000, it was estimated that a Tupperware party started somewhere in the world about every three seconds.

Highbrow means cultured or intellectual, and its opposite is lowbrow. In 1925, the English humor magazine “Punch” offered a definition for a relatively new term — middlebrow: “It consists of people who are hoping that some day they will get used to the stuff they ought to like.”

A tiger’s roar may carry as far as three miles.