What Words Can I Make With "NEWSBIT"?
Here's a fun fact I've had in an open tab forever . . . or should I say, a F4U1N1 fact?
The classic board game Scrabble was invented in Queens by Alfred Mosher Butts, in a church basement on 35th Avenue. That latter fact is commemorated by a street sign on 35th Avenue . . . which, instead of saying "35TH AVENUE," says "35T1H4 A1V4E1N1U1E1" – honoring the point values for the letter tiles of Scrabble.
More info (including pictures) can be found on this Atlas Obscura blog post . . . including a cryptic detail that no one knows where the street sign came from in the first place.
-- Steven Marsh