A close-up to show one of the police reports being rubber stamped with the new date "Friday October 20" is already dated 23 February 1959. ( A newspaper shown earlier established the story is taking place in the present, 1961)
Leo and Sylvia Schnauzer get into a disagreement about Abraham Lincoln's height. Leo claims Lincoln was six feet, six and three-quarters inches tall, and Sylvia claims Lincoln was six feet, seven inches tall. They are both wrong, however; Lincoln was six feet, four inches tall.