Trivia

Scientists say the damming up of artificial lakes by humans has infinitesimally slowed the spinning of the earth.

Q. What keeps live cockroaches from drying out?

A. Wax waterproofing.

If it isn’t at least two-tenths of an inch in diameter, it isn’t hail.

A survey of men who go on business trips reveals that more than five times as many would rather take along their wives than their laptop computers. I’ve read that the wives oftentimes decide this matter, know laptops don’t.

When oats first showed up on the North American continent, probably around 1602, mostly they were boiled into a medicinal mush and eaten by people with stomach complaints.

Tom Arnold once tried his hand at packing ham for Hormel.

Film personality Dennis Hopper is not unique in every way; he, too, was a high school debater. As were Richard Nixon, John Wayne, Eleanor McGovern and Mia Farrow.