Trivia

The Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains was supposed to be the boundary between Montana and Idaho. In 1864, surveyors thought they’d found the line when they reached the Bitterroot Range. Wrong. But the Bitterroots were designated as the boundary, and Idaho wound up considerably smaller than intended, and not quite so mountainous without much of what later was to become Glacier National Park.

Eight of anything is an “ogdoad,” but you don’t hear it much.

Q. Who invented felt?

A. A herdsman - name unknown - in Outer Mongolia. As insulation for the circular tent called the “ger.”

Report is that a couple of hundred drivers took their license plates back to the Motor Vehicle Bureau in West Virginia because they started with the letters OJ.

All of Tasmania’s snakes are poisonous.

Ninety percent of the food servers in the United States are waitresses.