Trivia

When asked to name the U.S. time zones, most people say Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific. And leave out Bering, Alaska, Yukon and Atlantic. You, too?

Hippo ivory doesn’t turn yellow.

Secret Service men always had to bait the hook for President Calvin Coolidge when he went fishing. They didn’t like that. And they had to take the fish off the hook. They didn’t like that, either. Coolidge wore gloves. But he still thought it was .. ick….

Of all the French fried potatoes the United States ships abroad - and that’s a many - Japan gets almost half.

Poet T. S. Eliot said: “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”

The famous Pennsylvania Turnpike once gave its state the reputation of having the best roads, and generations of people who don’t travel still believe it. But truckers in a recent large poll listed Pennsylvania’s I-80 as the nation’s worst stretch of highway.

That adjustment your eyes make to bright light is called “photopia.”