Things we learned from A&OL

There was a Things We Learned thread here a few years ago but it got deleted. So...

1) Old guys who go missing in Brooklyn don't get investigated.
2) The only time the Brooklyn Dodgers could win the World Series is on Halloween, literally.
3) Nearly all of New York's cops in the 1930s-40s were of Irish descent. (History suggests that this is very likely true.)
4) Insane asylums have too many Theodore Roosevelts. They don't have enough George Washingtons or Abraham Lincolns, and hardly any Napoleon Bonarpartes.
5) Dr. Witherspoon may be committing the wrong Brewster.
6) During the Panama Canal construction, President Theodore Roosevelt personally buried each yellow fever victim all by himself.
7) The Panamanian yellow fever epidemic spread even to the window seat.
8) Dr. Einstein is a renowned physician, and something of a magician.
9) It's not a good idea to get plastic surgery from a doctor who is an alcoholic and has just watched a Frankenstein movie.
10) Insanity runs in the Brewster family. It practically gallops.
11) To have authority to commit your brother to the funny farm, you have to be a biological brother, as an adopted brother doesn't count.