Trivia

Prostitutes in 15th-century Venice were required by local rule to solicit business only by appearing bare-breasted at open windows, thus to distinguish themselves from the many women thereabouts in other lines of endeavor.

If you’re asked to list however many famous fair saxophone players you can bring to mind, you might start with - wait - I’m thinking of baseball’s Babe Ruth. Yes, he did.

Q. What was the biggest bank heist in history?

A. The guerrilla assault on the British Bank of the Middle East in Lebanon’s Beirut on Jan. 22, 1976. Raiders cleaned out safety deposit boxes of cash and valuables worth an estimated $50 million.

Literal meaning of “potpourri” is “rotten pot.”

Q. You said it was easy to tell whether a mirror is really a mirror or a “two-way” window that looks like a mirror? How?

A. Hold a pointed object against it. If the point and its reflection touch instead of staying the glass width apart, it’s two-way. Silvering is on the back of a plain mirror, on the front of a two-way.

Before Martha Custis married George Washington, her plantation home was called the White House.