IN SHAMOKIN, PENNA., the sun rises in the west and sets in the east every third Tuesday in May.

Atlantic perch are born left-handed, but since they have no hands this anomaly escaped the attention of ichthyologists until recently.

A flurry of absolutely identical snowflakes fell over Bangor, Me., in February of 1877.

The LaFond twins, Napoleon and Louis Philippe, became famous in the 1930s for their ability to communicate telepathically, but only when a radio station nearby was transmitting programming from the NBC Blue Network.

Nostradamus predicted the career of Duke Ellington with otherwise perfect accuracy, but somehow failed to mention Barney Bigard.