Today's the birthday of a mystery author known to millions of kids, Donald J Sobol. He wrote the Encyclopedia Brown series, about a 10 year old detective who solved cases because he knew, as his nickname suggested, all sorts of unusual and obscure facts in the era way before the internet.
One night chef Emeril Lagasse came to the house and whipped up a mess of jambalaya, and after three helpings Encyclopedia leaped up from the table shouting, "I know where she is! I know where she is!" "She" being Amelia Earhart.
