Trivia

Q. What’s the highest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole?

A. 5.5 degrees F.

Cocaine really was the key ingredient in a packet of Cocaine Toothache Drops, available at drugstores nationwide in the 1890s for 15 cents.

Q. How do we know the Neanderthals were underfed?

A. Fossilized tooth enamel.

Q. Where was the first miniature golf course?

A. On the grounds of a small hotel near the top of Tennessee’s Lookout Mountain. The owner, Garnet Carter, set it up in 1927. It drew players aplenty. He then built many. So did others. Within three years, the nationwide count of them was about 40,000.

A lot more parents evidently are giving their toddlers soda pop now. Soft drink consumption by children under age 5 reportedly as gone up 23 percent in 15 years.

Q. How long does it take to flash-freeze fresh vegetables to be packed for market?

A. About 65 seconds.