Trivia

The deltoid muscle atop a woman’s upper arm generally is the better developed of her arm muscles because that’s the one she exercises most in fixing her hair.

Inchworms are carnivorous.

Q. Which officials actually hold the keys to the nuclear missiles in U.S. missile silos?

A. Missile launch officers, research reveals. Their average age is reported to be 24.

In the Library of Congress is a huge separate collection of erotic literature with much detailed torrid pornography.

A daring fellow named Bobby Leech almost a century ago went over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He lived, but just barely. Doctors said he broke more bones than they could count. Later, in New Zealand he slipped - on a banana peel, correspondents insisted - and that small fall killed him.

What remains unchanged? Couple thousand years ago, Ovid wrote: “How little you know about the age you live in if you think honey is sweeter than cash in hand.”

Tax evasion is not a felony in Switzerland. A convicted evader can be fined but not imprisoned.

Swans fight to the death.

Q. Did you say you could housebreak an armadillo?

A. Many have done so. You feed a pet armadillo once a day at 9 p.m. Dogfood will do. But the curious character is said to prefer milk, eggs, berries, nuts and raw meat.

When women die before age 74, the statisticians in the health dodge assume the cause was cancer. When women die after age 74, they assume the cause was heart disease. Their numbers so suggest.

A few iconoclasts have made it through the jogging, dieting, health studio age so far without cracking a physical fitness manual. So they’ve missed that chapter in Jane Fonda’s “Workout Book” called “Advanced Buttocks.”

Little wonder you haven’t come up with a rhyme for “silver.” You haven’t even tried, have you?

Q. What’s the most common nightmare about?

A. Falling.