Trivia

Q. When did golf balls first come out with dimples?

A. In 1908. Englishman William Taylor devised them to get better carry on the ball. That year, too, the Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda at work on seaweed made the first monosodium glutamate. And the U.S. pharmacist Max Kiss created Ex-Lax.

Coarse hair grows faster than fine hair.

Q. What’s a “right-handed” boat motor?

A. One with a propeller that turns clockwise.

Dandelions are sexless.

Claim is no frontier cowboy of the Old West was ever more devoted to his horse than is the Bedouin to his camel. For one thing, that cowboy rarely, if ever, milked his horse. Nor did he make from it his buckets and blankets. And he certainly didn’t eat it. Except maybe in most unusual circumstances.

It has been calculated that the average woman who applies any lip color at all uses up approximately her height in lipstick every five years.