Trivia

A human with normal eyesight can see better at night than a bear with normal eyesight.

What romantic partners really want most is an intimate emotional rapport. Men think of sex as a way to find it. Women think of sex as the end result of it. So says Dr. John Gottman of the University of Washington, who has made a professional study of the matter.

Advertising experts say no billboard message should be more than seven words long.

Q. A painting of a sailboat by French artist Henri Matisse hung upside down for 47 days in New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. How could an upside-down sailboat remain on view so long?

A. Matisse also painted the boat’s reflection on the water. The painting’s hanger thought the reflection was the boat and the boat was the reflection.

Beau Brummell wound up anointed as history’s most fashionable man. But he wasn’t otherwise anointed. He refused to wear anything scented.

“Main cause of heart attacks in men over 60,” writes a client, “is women under 30.”

Sigmund Freud’s first three scholarly papers were about fish.