Trivia

Report is it can cost as much as $300,000 to take care of a chimpanzee for its possible lifetime of 60 years.

If in your drive to get it said, you do not wish to be interrupted, just don’t look at the eyes of the waiting interrupter. Eye contact is what that eager party needs to jump in. Or so advises a student of conversational cues.

Q. How many funerals are held every day at Arlington Cemetery? When will it fill up?

A. About 15, daily average. Full capacity expected by 2020.

Richest milk is said to come from the mother seal.

When people get anxious, they turn to their pets, if any. President Andrew Jackson did that, sort of. During his impeachment, he set up a basket and water dish for White House mice and slipped them bits of food under the dinner table.

Body language is innate. Worldwide, all people who pout adopt the same expression. None other than Charles Darwin recorded that observation.

It takes seven quail eggs to equal one hen’s egg.

It was the English who invented the military goose step.