Trivia

Indiana ranks No. 1 on that list of states said by truck drivers to have the best roads. No. 2, Ohio. No. 3, Georgia. Tied for No. 4, Florida and Virginia.

Said Robert Frost: “It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on Earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.” Frost was not a male chauvinist poet. He said the same thing in different words about the unworried woman.

Madonna once sold Dunkin’ doughnuts.

Report is that one out of every 50 people over age 35 develops glaucoma.

The 1924 gangster “Nails” Norton went for a horseback ride in Chicago’s Lincoln Park. The horse threw him. He died. Norton’s associates kidnapped the rental animal, led it back to where Nails fell, and shot it dead.

Q. How come most fish eggs are almost yolkless

A. They’re laid in water where food for the unborn fish is readily available, usually.

Q. Who was the baseball pitcher who could throw two balls - a fastball and a curve - from one hand at the same time?

A. The Cleveland Indians coach Jackie Price in the late 1940s demo’d that trick.

A saguaro cactus doesn’t even start to grow arms until it’s about 75 years old.

What long was called the “tailless bandicoot” of Australia is a ratlike marsupial with a long tapering snout and long legs. And a long tail, too. Naturalists who named it found one that just happened to be without a tail. They asked aborigines to bring others like it. So the locals caught a few, and before turning them in, chopped off their tails. The name stuck for years despite later enlightening data.

Q. When this winter’s floods waterlog our books, manuals and papers, what can we do to make them readable?

A. Freeze-dry them maybe. That’s what the experts do.

Scientists think the earliest ears were for balance, not hearing.