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Fast facts: In London, one receives a 24-hour detainment if caught sticking gum under a seat on the upper deck of a bus. Each eye of a chameleon is independent of the other. A lizard can watch and study two totally different pictures at the same time. Candles burn more slowly and evenly with minimum wax drippings if they are placed in the freezer for an hour before using. In Massachusetts, snoring is prohibited unless all bedroom windows are closed and securely locked, and it is illegal to go to bed without first having a full bath. Eagles mate while airborne.

 

On this date: Racy for its time, Esquire magazine made its debut on American newsstands in 1933 The medical industry took great strides in 1952 when the first pacemaker to control the body's heartbeat, developed by Dr. Paul Zoll of Harvard University, was fitted externally to patient David Schwartz. Space exploration officially took off in 1957 when the Soviet Union became the first nation to go into space with the launch of the human-made satellite Sputnik-I. The first visit by a pope to the United States occurred when Pope Paul VI arrived in New York City in 1965. Teenage television viewers became hooked when, in 1990, the struggling FOX network launched one of its most successful shows to date, "Beverly Hills 90210." The original cast included Shannen Doherty, Jason Priestley, James Eckhouse and Carol Potter.