Trivia

First armadillo of record in the United States turned up in Brownsville, Texas, in 1859. Its finder caged it and charged viewers five cents a look. A circus advance man happened by and promptly bought the beast for $5,000 in gold. So reports historian C. F. Eckhardt.

Of those who phone their mothers on Mother’s Day, surveytakers say, 3 percent call collect.

Report is that so many people are moving to Salt Lake City that only half its 166,00 townsfolk now are Mormon.

A highly reliable source reports the sloth climbs down out of the tree about once a week to do what sloths do in the woods.

If you stop for coffee on your drive to work, odds are you’ll pull off the road to your right. If you stop for milk and eggs on your drive home, odds are you’ll also pull off the road to your right. Exceptions are plentiful, but that’s the preferred pattern of the strip-mall planners: going to work, coffee shops; going home, grocery stores.

Some police research suggests the highest rate of vandalism is committed by youngsters at the seventh-grade level.