Trivia

Q. Which major league baseball team has retired the most uniforms?

A. New York Yankees - 13.

Metal workers several centuries ago expected to lose their hearing. Or much of it. They accepted that.

In the trade talk of seafood sellers, all fresh shrimp are “green shrimp,” and it used to be they all were gray. Not anymore. Many are brown, pink, even red. And some “green shrimp” are even green, sort of.

Q. Which actress and actor co-starred in a movie without ever appearing the same scene?

A. Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt in “12 Monkeys.”

Pennsylvania chicken farmers in 1938 had too many eggs. So they hard-boiled them and put them out for a nickel apiece in vending machines all over the state.

If your fear of snakes is irrational - what’s irrational about that? - you’re said to be “ophidiophobic.”

Lot of peanut shells wind up in cat-box litter.