Trivia

Most polar bears never set foot on land.

The licensing agency for broadcast music, BMI, lists 191 song titles with the word “September” in them. Only 148 with “October.” And 139 with “November.”

Q. What was the first big city ever bombed by airplane?

A. Paris. Aug. 30, 1914. Pilots of Germany flew over.

Students of science from the beginning believed only women become hysterical. It was Sigmund Freud who discovered men, too, suffer similarly.

To that list of renowned personages who died while active in bed, please add Attila the Hun.

A ball of yarn in the early Anglo-Saxon language was called a “cleoven.” It was said the only way to find your route home out of certain caverns was to follow back a strand of yarn you’d unraveled on your way in. “Cleoven” was shortened and wound up in English as “clue.”

A groundhog never drinks water.

Q. Who was the first U.S. president sworn into office by his nickname?

A. Jimmy Carter.