Trivia

According to those doctors who treat foot problems, that most swiftly multiplying complaint about feet has to do with pain in the heels.

The Portuguese make a dandy dinner of lamprey. Tasty, they say.

An algorithm, many people know, is a a step-by-step procedure to solve a problem. But few realize it covers more than arithmetic. It can even be stretched to mean cookbook recipe. Or instruction sheet on how to reset your electric clocks.

A spider can curl its legs with its muscles, but it must pump fluid into them to straighten them.

The assembly line was a bright idea, all right, but not Henry Ford’s. One M. H. Lane set up such to put together carts, buggies, wagons and sleighs. For his Michigan Buggy Co. in Kalamazoo, Mich., starting in 1883. His 240 men turned out 19,000 vehicles when Kalamazoo was known as Carriage City.

Any budgeting householder with youngsters might confirm the claim that a child’s shoe size from birth to age 10 can change 34 times.

Lake Erie differs from the other Great Lakes in that its bottom is above sea level.