Trivia

Young people in northern Europe chewed gum as far back as 7000 B.C., evidently. A British researcher named Elizabeth Aveling says specimens of prehistoric birch-bark tar show human teeth marks. Of a size teenagers’ teeth might leave.

A “potherb” is not an herb you grow in a flower pot but an herb you put in a cooking pot.

Q. What would I see if I scraped paint off the White House?

A. Plain brownstone and a Secret Service agent.

Oftentimes in the literature of legend, the good characters have names - Little Red Riding Hood - but the bad animals don’t - the wolf.

First definition of the word “embarrass” long was “to hamper the movement of.”

Genes of the guinea pig more closely resemble those of a cow than a rat.

When that vocalist three stools down says, “I’ll bet you a round you can’t tell me Abraham Lincoln’s middle name,” don’t bite. Lincoln had no middle name.

Headhunters tell job-seekers that the cover letter is just as important, sometimes even more important, than the resume.

Q. How many correspondents died covering the Vietnam War?

A. Sixty-three.