Any historian will tell you Cleopatra was her own sister-in-law

One of my idols growing up was none other than L.M. Boyd. The man had a way with words and with twisting the garbage of common knowledge into a beautiful sculpture of esoteric nerdiness. The last time I looked up Mr. Boyd on the Internet, which had to be a couple of years ago, there wasn't much out there about him. But since he retired in 2004 a bunch of webpages have sprung up with his nuggets of trivia. Here's a sampling.