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The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Trivia

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

The door of the dugout - wherein hibernates the grizzly bear - always opens on the north slope.

Claim is the single most common chronic physical disability nationwide is loss of hearing.

Q. Who actually brought the first horses to the Western Hemisphere? How many? And when?

A. Hernando Cortez. 17. In 1518. That’s history’s first horses. Prehistoric little horses were here 10,000 years earlier.

Daily in the ancient Roman army, every two soldiers were issued a large loaf of bread - under strict military order - to be cut in half by one with the other to get first choice.

In early America, farm families drank a lot of milk, but city families drank little, if any. True, a few street vendors in Eastern Seaboard cities kept cows in town, and they hawked their strippings by the dipperful. But regular milk drinkers did not proliferate until the railroads brought milk to inland towns around 1840.

Tennessee Williams wrote a play he called “The Eclipse of May 29, 1919.” It came out as “The Rose Tattoo.”

Mae West said she liked two kinds of men - domestic and foreign.

For frequent future use, you may want to sound out this one syllable by syllable until you get it right: “Mageiricophobia” is the intense fear of having to cook.

Q. What did the Civil War soldiers eat mostly?

A. Northern - bread, meat, dried vegetables, coffee. Southern - corn bread, salt or pickled beef and pork.

If you put a pill in a bucket of fish and feed it to a killer whale, that sensitive orca probably will swallow the fish and spit out the pill, according to the caretakers.