Tripolini pasta was named for the Italian conquest of Tripoli in Libya. | In Miami, Florida, roosting vultures have taken to snatching poodles from rooftop patios. | The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every one hundred years. | The number Pi (the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle) can't be expressed as a fraction, this means it is an irrational number. When written as a decimal it never repeats and never ends. | President Warren G. Harding once lost white house china in a poker game.