TIES ARE BIG BUSINESS IN MENSWEAR

More than $1 billion is spent each year on neckties in the United States.

In West Africa, red colobus monkeys can often be found in association with black and white dianas. That’s because chimpanzees prey on the red colobus, and the vigilant dianas are better at spotting chimpanzees than are their reddish-brown friends. It also helps that the two species don’t compete for food. Dianas eat fruit while the red colobus prefer leaves.

A well-known physician of ancient Greece, Galen, held that a drippy nose was evidence of a brain that was purging itself.

By 1914, the Ford Motor Company employed less than 20 percent of the country’s auto workers. But it was responsible for almost half of the nation’s cars.

Statistics from General Motors show that the average driver uses an airbag only once every 175 years.

Teflon, the nonstick material that is often touted as a result of the space race, was actually created in 1938, years before the U.S. put a man on the moon. And its invention was a lucky mistake. Roy Plunkett had been attempting to make a nontoxic refrigerant. Plunkett’s discovery was kept a military secret until 1946. The first nonstick cooking pans were produced by the Tefal company in 1956.