Before settling on Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle considered giving his detective the first name "Sherringford."
Jaleel White ("Steve Urkel") was the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog in the video game character's mid-1990s cartoon.
Stanford's band created the Tree mascot. Failed ideas the band also tried: the French Fry and the Steaming Manhole.
Andrew Carnegie so loved bagpipe music that when he became rich, he hired a personal piper.
In 1835, John Wilkes Booth's father Junius threatened to kill President Andrew Jackson.
Publisher Harlequin prints a line of romance novels exclusively set in the world of NASCAR.
