Trivia

Ancient Egyptians used stone pillows.

Q. Jungle hunters in South America kill game with blow-pipe darts dipped in toxin from poison dart frogs. But how can they eat the meat without risking poisoning themselves?

A. They taste it most carefully to find the poisoned part, then cut it away.

Report is the Chinese long have put firecrackers in household corners to serve as fire alarms.

Q. Ask your Love and War Man: After the first five years of a marriage, what year is a divorce, if any, most likely?

A. First year after the last youngster leaves home.

A chimpanzee has no more hair follicles than a human being.

Historians differ as to the exact amount of the original Pony Express riders’ salaries, but they probably got about $100 a month. And a place to sit.

Q. What’s a “puwo”?

A. A crossbreed between a standard poodle and a wolf.

Poland is now in NATO. Amazing, no? The country wasn’t even on the maps of Europe for 123 years - from 1795 to 1918. But the Poles preserved their own identity most remarkably for four or five generations under alien language rule.