Did you know . . .

Before setting off on his 3 hour cruise to Gilligan's Island, Roy Hinkley, the professor, wrote the book Rust: The Real Red Menace."

John Bartlett's collection of quotations, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, was first published in 1855, and is still in use today. At the time, Bartlett was a high school dropout who worked as a cleark in a Harvard University bookstore. He later became the bookstore's owner.

A Wonka's Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight was the name of the lucky chocolate bar that Charlie bought in the popular children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

The kids on TV's Leave it to Beaver were never shown asking for a glass of milk, just in case a soft-drink company sponsored the program in syndication.