Trivia

Rugby football tradition calls for both teams at game’s end to give three “Hip hip hoorays” for the referee. Sell this one to the NFL, eh?

Call it dubious, this claim that William Shakespeare would not sit at a table where salt was served. But maybe so, maybe so.

Novelist Zane Grey also once played center field in the minor leagues.

Weight of the average man who flies in jet airplanes - 185 - is about 20 pounds greater than the weight of the average man in general - 165.

Can you refute the contention that Alaska has about 100,000 glaciers?

Fourth most used language in the United States is sign language.

Squid is now reported to be the most popular pizza topping in Japan. In Australia, it’s eggs. In India, pickled ginger.

Traveling merchants were shunned by the burghers of old Europe. Fear was those itinerants carried in their goods the fleas that spread the plague. Townsfolk liked the cheap prices, though. So sellers set up stands in odd places. Wherever they could. And the sites came to be called flea markets.