Trivia

Those who eat elephants get 100 times as much meat from one kill as do those who eat antelopes.

It was Charles Darwin’s cousin, one Sir Francis Galton, who in 1892 developed fingerprint identification into a sort of science.

Not all students of crime know that never in her lifetime was Ma Barker charged with any felony.

Earliest Dartmouth students were called to class by an appointed freshman blowing long, loud blasts on a conch shell. That didn’t end until the college collected enough money to buy a big bell.

Told you about the 11-inch cigarettes called “Head Play” sold in the 1930s. Client says they were a tax dodge. They came five in a pack. You only paid tax on the five, but were advised to cut each into four to get 20.

Those who hunt kangaroos say night is the best time to do it.

You know why most seabirds are white? Because for a jillion years white birds have been better able than dark birds to get close enough unseen to the fish to catch same.

Q. What’s a “philter”?

A. That’s what the tale tellers of old called a magic potion or charm thought to arouse sexual desire in some targeted person.