Trivia

If you order oysters in Australia’s Port Lincoln, you need more than a little three-tined fork. Correspondents say just one of those local oysters - more than a foot in diameter - can cover a dinner plate.

Stunning statistic: Four out of five Russian men born in 1923 were killed in World War II.

In 38 percent of the marriages, when one spouse catches a cold, the other does, too. So report the researchers.

Maybe you didn’t realize there’s a Zen Buddhist Center in downtown Salt Lake City.

Wreckers tore down a building in 1931 to make way for Rockefeller Center. In the middle of the rubble they put up a little fir Christmas tree. A tradition took. Rockefeller Center’s Christmas tree goes back farther than Rockefeller Center.

Said the journalist Helen Rowland: “Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.”

Some food items in the supermarkets sell better to the elderly, some better to the middle-aged, some better to the young. But the one category that sells well and equally well to all grown-ups, according to grocer groups, are meals that can be prepared in less than 20 minutes.

Q. How come some boiled shrimp smell a little like iodine?

A. That’s detectable, if they’d been eating a sort of marine life called balanoglossus. Harmless.