Facts You Probably don’t Need

• Central Park’s lampposts contain a set of four numbers that can help you navigate. The first two tell you the nearest street, and the next two tell you whether you’re closer to the east or west side of the park (even numbers signal east, odd signals west).

• Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt once snuck out of a White House event, commandeered an airplane, and went on a joyride to Baltimore.

• If you have the feeling you’ve experienced an event before in real life, call it dé jà vu. If you feel like you’ve previously experienced an event in a dream instead, there’s a different term for it: déjà rêvé.

• The three dots on the Domino’s logo represent the chain’s three original locations. Co-founder Tom Monaghan originally planned to add a new dot for every pizzeria he opened.

•  Tony the tiger has a family. It includes his mother, Mama Tony; his wife, Mrs. Tony; and his children, Tony Jr. and Antoinette.

• The Chicago Tribune’s “Dewey Defeats Truman” gaffe is infamous, but New York’s Journal of Commerce ran eight articles on November 3, 1948, about President-Elect Dewey.

• According to California tax law, a hot dog is legally a sandwich.

Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.