Trivia

Prehistoric hunters moved their camps. Not just to find game. But to eat it. When they knocked down a big animal, it was sometimes easier to move the camp to the kill than the kill to the camp.

The root systems of most trees spread not just as wide as the branch systems overhead but about twice as wide.

Among baby mice, the males start to fight with one another right after they’re born, but the females don’t.

Not men but women chose a lot of the livestock feed sold between the 1930s and 1960s. Because much of it came in 100-pound sacks of colorful print cotton, each providing a 38-by-47-inch panel of fabric.

Q. Where did the first smoke-jumpers fight fire?

A. In Idaho’s Nez Perce National Forest. On July 12, 1940, a pair of pioneers, Rufus Robinson and Earl Cooley, stepped out of a Travelair plane into a choking, smoky sky. Lagniappe: Smoke-jumpers now average about $20,000 for a five-month season.

In the native tongue of the Western Alaska Eskimo, “yuk” means “person.”