Trivia

No evidence indicates humans in general have ever lived as loners. Individuals, surely. But the mass of men and women always have paired off in perennial partnerships akin to marriage. Scholars say this pattern of centuries suggests aloneness is one of the most intolerable of conditions among humans. Maybe you knew that.

The male coyote is sterile eight months out of every year.

In the cat-o’-nine-tails era on the high seas, Monday was whipping day. That’s where we first got the “blue Monday” phrase. It was adopted later by those who did laundry on Monday, understandably.

It was in 1865 that Vassar College surprised the young ladies in attendance there with a decree that they all must bathe twice a week.

Iowa law stipulates it’s also illegal there to pretend to be drunk.

Length of your foot is equal to the tape measurement around your closed fist. Or it’s supposed to be.

New York City cleans its subways with what must be the world’s biggest vacuum cleaner - a five-car vacuum train. Word is it cuts down on the hundreds of subway trash fires.