Trivia

If you like exotic mixed drinks, you might try gin in coconut milk. That’s the traditional cocktail in the Caribbean Commonwealth of Dominica. Locals say they love it with dried salt cod, and in that they may be unique.

Not all realize a giraffe’s four legs are about the same length.

Q. Where are you in your progress to master the Internet, friendo?

A. About where the Wright brothers were before they figured out wing warp. I can fly it but can’t guide it.

Laotians eat ants’ eggs.

The body of the great tenor Enrico Caruso was entombed for six years - from 1921 to 1927 - in a transparent coffin. For his fans’ sake. What good that did them I don’t know. It was his voice that was so spectacular, and he couldn’t sing in that condition. Caretakers put a new suit on his remains every year.

Worldwide, the squid eaters outnumber the oyster eaters considerably.

In Venezuela are plants with roots that eat insects underground.

The scream of the otter sounds almost human, it’s said.