Trivia

British lab scientists cultivated bacteria colonies of the kind most associated with food poisoning. They then poured one alcoholic beverage after another over samplings of each. To learn most liquors had little effect, but wine killed almost all the bacteria.

Q. Who was the first Beatle to come out with a No. 1 hit single after the group’s breakup?

A. George Harrison with “My Sweet Lord.”

Q. What are the three things a prosecutor has to prove in a murder case? A. 1. That the killing occurred. 2. That it was done so as to be defined legally as murder. 3. That the accused intended to kill or do bodily harm.

Women who live in the suburbs get more headaches than women who live within the cities. Such were the findings of a medical study that also indicated younger women are more likely than older women to get headaches in the afternoons, while older women are more inclined than younger women to wake up with headaches.

It was Abraham Lincoln who said, “What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”

The man who invented barbed wire - Joseph Glidden of DeKalb, Ill. - made his first specimen of it by running some strands through a quickly ruined coffee grinder.