Trivia

Whether in the wild or in captivity, grizzly bear cubs are born around Jan. 3.

Q. How many U.S. politicians have been killed by lightning?

A. Only one, congressman Samuel Brashear of West Virginia in 1924, according to the records at hand.

Conjecture that is Thor Heyerdahl’s book, “Kon-Tiki,” probably has sold more copies - about 20 million - than all other anthropology books combined.

Whales have no vocal cords.

Not all realize that the first American colony to legalize slavery was Massachusetts.

It’s said of all business partnerships that the going usually doesn’t get rough until the team starts to become successful. What does them in then is the division of rewards.

When you eat a Salisbury steak, do you pause to think of the English physician for whom it was named - J. H. Salisbury? No, suppose not.

Claim is that newspaper headline writers have coined more words than any other group of professionals.

An observant traveler reports: Not all Europeans upon greeting one another kiss twice, this cheek, that cheek. Hollanders kiss thrice, this cheek, that cheek, this cheek.