Trivia

The Law of 80-20 works in traffic tickets, too. Twenty percent of the offenders, roughly, get 80 percent of the tickets.

You can live longer on just water and salt than on wine and food with absolutely no salt.

The young woman who habitually wears bright contrasting colors tends to be unsure of herself. Such were the conclusions of Penn State researchers who compared the usual costumes of women on campus with their psychological test results.

Tarantulas, like Siamese fighting fish, attack each other to kill.

The first earrings were earplugs, actually, and scholars say they were worn as body ornaments even before stone weapons were devised. I mean stone weapons other than thrown rocks.

Where you find an eagle eating a snake on a cactus, there you will build your city. That’s what the hummingbird god supposedly told the ancient Aztecs. They found just such an omen in a swampy place later called Lake Texcoco. Any surveyor will tell you the snake-eating eagle method is the poorest possible way to pick a town site. Yet that town is turning into the largest in the world - Mexico City.

Those who purport to know say unhatched chickens dream.