Trivia

Airline flights are numbered to signify. Generally, even numbers go east and west, odd numbers. north and south. And some signify otherwise: One flight to Las Vegas is 711. Another to Ohio’s Columbus, 1492. And one to Boston, 1776. To Indianapolis, 500. There’s no flight 13.

Porcupine quills contain natural antibiotics.

During World War II, the Japanese freighter Enoura Maru carried American prisoners of war.

The crew of the USS Sealion didn’t know. On Sept. 12, 1944, the Sealion torpedoed the Enoura. Almost 1,000 Americans died.

Q. What’s the most widely produced cash crop in the United States?

A. Hay. If you owned it all, you’d gross maybe $12 billion a year.

“The great American writer Herman Melville went out to his barn shortly after he got up every day for no other purpose than to say ‘Good Morning’ to his horse.” So it is recorded in the historical footnotes by dainty journalists who make little mention therein of the plumbing facilities in Melville’s time.

Michelangelo never got around to completing two-thirds of his sculptures.