Trivia

How would you define “sleeping partner”? To the British in business, it’s a term for “silent partner.”

Pluto is smaller than our moon.

Q. It’s a statistical fact that the area around Boston has about twice as many regular drinkers and half as many teetotalers as any other metropolitan area of its size nationwide? What accounts for it?

A. Researchers think numerous universities thereabouts may have something to do with it.

Q. What’s “The First Canon of Sales”?

A. “Nothing happens until somebody sells something.”

You can get 58 words in a 30-second commercial. Typically.

Among husbands over age 45, about one in 900 is married to a wife under age 25. Not all that common, such marriages. Only about 7 percent of husbands are as much as 10 years older than their wives. Current statistics on older wives with younger husbands are said to be less reliable. They’re still under study.

Scholars repeatedly have tried to catalog all the possible uses of nylon, but they’ve never finished such a list.

It was recorded by Middle East ancients that a camel could carry five times as heavy a load as could a donkey.