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Fast facts: A bicycle headlight primarily allows others to see you. However, some of the brighter lights do aid nighttime vision. Most lights range in wattage from 2.4 to 20. Police department bikes in the United States use a minimum of 15 watts. Dating back to the 1600s, thermometers were filled with brandy instead of mercury. ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago. The original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons and had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today can store a million times more information than an ENIAC and is 50,000 times faster. The Concorde holds two world speed records for commercial flights. In 1992, it circled the globe from east to west in 32 hours, 49 minutes and three seconds. Three years later, the Concorde flew west to east in 31 hours, 27 minutes and 49 seconds. The first video game was Pong, introduced in 1972 by Noel Bushnell, who then created Atari. Gold salts are sometimes injected into the muscles to relieve arthritis. IBM was incorporated in 1911 as the Computer-Tabulating-Recording Co. with a product line that included time clocks, scales and punch card tabulators. The name was changed in 1924. IBM stands for International Business Machines.

 

On this date: In 1788, Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1865, Robert E. Lee was appointed Confederate General in Chief. In 1911, the first old-age home opened in Prescott, Ariz. In 1935, the board game Monopoly went on sale for the first time. In 1951, radio commentator Paul Harvey was arrested for trying to sneak into the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. In 1970, the NBA expanded to 18 teams with Buffalo, Cleveland, Houston and Portland. In 1982, "Centerfold" by J Geils Band hit No. 1 on the pop chart. In 1998, Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, a former teacher who violated probation by seeing the 14-year-old father of her baby, was sentenced to seven and a half years in jail.

 

Quotable... "This isn't right. We put all our ingenuity and creativity at the service of the company we believed in and trusted and were certain would reward our commitment." - Deborah Perotta, an Enron stockholder who lost $40,000 after shares of the bankrupt company dropped from about $80 a share to less than $1 apiece.