Trivia

Q. The darker the towel, the less absorbent it is. Why?

A. It already has asorbed a lot of dye.

The average woman - never met her - is said to speak 25,000 words per day more than the average man - never met him, either.

Until about a century ago in Turkey, convicted adultresses were tied in sacks with live cats and thrown into the sea. Or so the historical footnotes detail.

If the robin is red-breasted, it’s a grown-up.

Many Greeks of old drank too much. So thought some who didn’t. They invented a jug with such a small opening it took six hours to fill. But the device was about as successful as Prohibition.

Builders of the first Stonehenge dug with deer antlers, that’s known.

One in four wives can be expected to engage in extramarital romance. Or so contends a Professor Gwynne Jones of Leeds University in England. It’s his notion that numerous women, exposed to so much “I’m worth it” advertising, have set out to prove they’re as desirable as they’re told. Clearly, they are.