January 27, 2012 10:55 PM EST
Clash Wednesday
*Amazon.com: sales of ‘Scorpions for Breakfast’ increased 2.2 million percent 24 hours after the Obama- Brewer encounter. *2010: Brewer signed Arizona’s law before the Obama administration sued to overturn it. *The U.S. Ninth...
*January 27, 1960: astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla.
* John F. Kennedy and William Taft are the only presidents buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Daily trivia from the world of pop culture and entertainment
*Since debuting in 1988, ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ has grossed $845 million, the highest-grossing show in Broadway history.