Trivia

Pickpockets and purse snatchers, sophisticated in thievery, examine stolen checkbooks. If the victim habitually signs checks before ripping them out of the books, that victim’s signature is most assuredly impressed onto the next check left therein, so makes forgery easy.

Those who know all about lions say the big cats are not the world’s best hunters. They score a kill in only one out of every four tries.

Q. In art restoration, what’s “the principle of reversibility”?

A. A safeguard against mistakes. It means the restorers are not supposed to do anything to a work of art they can’t undo.

Q. How do we know it’s male sex hormones that make birds sing?

A. Because females injected with them start to sing, too.

If what’s in your refrigerator is typical, the average item has traveled 1,300 miles to get to you.

Doesn’t take much to incite the romantic action of a male seahorse. All the female has to do is turn her head.

The earth is cratered by ancient asteroids - that the meteorologists know. What they still haven’t figured out is why half of those craters are in Canada.