Trivia

Those who test by tape-measure report the average woman’s thighs run an inch and a half bigger in circumference than the average man’s.

Champagne does not fizz in outer space. Or so a science reporter has learned. By deduction, I imagine.

Satellite radar precisely measures distances from on high down to ocean surfaces. Those numbers map hills and valleys atop the water, but that’s not all. Surface contours to some degree also reveal sea bottom contours. That’s how the satellites can map ocean floors.

To your list of painful problems that plagued Abraham Lincoln most of his life, add bunions.