Trivia

You can deliver a secret Easter message inside an unbroken hardboiled egg. Write it with a solution of vinegar and alum on the shell. When it dries, it becomes invisible, but it appears on the egg itself when the shell is stripped off.

The sperm whale leaves the family pad - make that pod - at about age 6. But it doesn’t mate until about age 27. Pretty long adolescence, what?

Q. Why is the Atlantic Ocean saltier than the Pacific?

A. Dry winds off the Sahara evaporate a lot of Atlantic water, leaving the excess salt. And the Atlantic is smaller, therefore its salt is a little more concentrated. Or so say the experts.

Recent surveys indicate 48 percent of the working people plan to go on working after they hit retirement age.

It was the custom of some Eskimo in years of yore to wink an eye to say “no.” Our Language Man is not certain this sign survived the first taverns.

Bats hate paint.