Trivia

Every major league baseball team in the United States reportedly buys about 18,000 baseballs a season.

Early Americans thought iron should never touch grain. So each grain shovel was made of a single piece of wood.

Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

Q. Didn’t you quote an Illinois psychiatrist as saying people who talk to their houseplants are healthier mentally than most others?

A. Read about it but don’t recall mentioning it - except to my philodendron.

Between time of death and onset of rigor mortis in a human body, contractions of muscles can cause the body to turn on its side.

To wax the car 2.5 times a year is reported to be typical. Of some maybe.

Darkness yellows ivory.

Abraham Lincoln said: “Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it. The tree is the real thing.”

A huge proportion of career burglars have been to college, says a police statistician.

First rubber shoes came out in 1820. They melted.

The common posture of prayer for centuries was the spreading of the arms with palms and face cast upward toward the heavens. Steepling of the hands under the chin was an artist’s creation of a more recent generation.