Trivia

“TICKS” is the acronymic jargon for “Two-Income Couple with Kids in School.”

Most birds have 12 tail feathers.

Q. What was the price of the first Barbie doll in 1959?

A. $3.

“Make no little plans,” advised Harry S. Truman. “Make the biggest one you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.”

Q. When you put up an extension ladder against a house, how far out from the base of the wall should the foot of the ladder be?

A. One foot out for each four feet high. So say the experts.

Q. Who was the first woman in the United States to have a statue put up in her honor?

A. One Hannah Duston merits that distinction. In what later became New Hampshire. She was particularly skillful when she worked alone with a knife and a hatchet. Twelve Indians killed Hannah’s daughter and captured Hannah in 1697. She killed 10 of them and took home their scalps for the bounty money.