If only the Three Men in a Boat knew this method to open their pineapple tin.

Here's the Butterball Hotline scene from "The West Wing": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQsvcs9IB8A

The local GG fan here believes the Gilmore downstairs bathroom is a 1/2 bath. And when Paris came over in a panic to figure out what to wear, Rory took her upstairs where there's a door from the bathroom directly to the hall, which is missing from the floorplan.

The last reminds me of a Brain Slug from Futurama.

I'd always wondered about eggplant, though not enough to actually research it myself. I do think #8, Airline Food in the 1960s, should point out that the airlines were more regulated then. They couldn't compete much on price, so they competed on meals and service. After deregulation the airlines became more competitive, and we found out that most people only care about price, not food or free liquor.

I don't think "the passengers were able to shift the balance of weight and turn the ship upright again", but I'm getting mixed information about it. If it were possible for the passengers to tilt a ship by that much, then just think of what would happen when all the passengers on are one side of the ship to watch, say, whales going by or a glacier calving. Or if it did help, then imagine what would happen when the steering was fixed so the ship would be level again, except that now a bunch of people are causing the ship to tilt in the other direction.

There are people who said that in the videos, but it sounds like speculation. Wikipedia has an anonymous, unattributed edit which says "Passengers were directed by crew members to all stand on the right side of the ship to even out the listing". It also says the ship listed 30 degrees, while you quote Carnival as saying it was 8 degrees. The most details I found were from http://www.cruiselawnews.com/2016/09/articles/power-loss-1/propulsion-problem-causes-carnival-legend-to-tilt/ , which says some crew asked people to stand towards starboard, but I don't get the sense that it was meant to balance out the ship. I do get the sense that some of the crew panicked as much as some of the passengers.

Growing up in Miami, I had read about the colors of autumn and seen pictures, but it wasn't until I was 18, on a road trip to northern Georgia, that I finally learned what the big deal was about. Where I grew up had mango, avocado, lime, and guava trees, and an orange tree hanging over from the neighbors' - none of which really turn color. It took a move to the north before I learned to recognize the (to me) exotic maple tree. It really did look like the Canadian flag!

Ow! My eyes hurt now. :)

Another attraction which doesn't fit the modern Yellowstone was the Firefall. Every night in summer, a stream of embers was pushed off the side of Glacier Point to make it look like a waterfall of fire.

There was also a 99% Invisible podcast about it, at http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-40-billy-possum/ .

The Spanish brought the first domesticated cats to America long before the Pilgrims in 1620. See http://www.answers.com/Q/Who_brought_the_first_cat_to_america which says that the Spanish ships to Florida were the first to bring cats to what is now the US.

That river has 15+ bears in it! I'm assuming the photographer was there to take pictures of the bears fishing. No wonder one might wander to the photographer. Probably also not a hungry bear, just curious.