Trivia

Thievery of company property is man’s work, mostly. Security experts say the employee who sneaks off the job with something valuable will be a man six times out of seven.

“Parthenolatry” is the worship of virgin women. You don’t hear it much.

Eleven percent of the bathrooms in this country are green - painted, papered, tiled, whatever. But you may want to know how many are blue - 22 percent. And as for white - 13 percent.

Why do you get seasick? Infants don’t.

The bustle on the woman’s backside goes back only about 100 years. The bustle on the woman’s frontside goes back about 800 years. Historical footnotes indicate almost all the women of Europe for a generation or so back then padded themselves as though to appear with child.

Female seals with ears give birth on land. Those without ears, in water.

How did Sherlock figure out that roller skates probably originated in Holland? Elementary. He learned the first such skates were simply shoes with small wheels attached. To what kind of shoes could one attach little wheels? Wooden shoes, that’s clear. Roller skates did indeed originate in Holland.

Q. What do you call that little spike in a candle dish that you stick the candle on?

A. A pricket.

At different times in different Howard Johnson’s, Lily Tomlin waited table, Gene Hackman worked the counter, and Mike Nichols bussed dishes.

Giraffes gnaw bones. When they can get them.

In the middle of Mexico, the limbs on one sort of fir tree sag as though they’d been weighted down for a long time with heavy snow. But snow isn’t what does it. The weight of Monarch butterflies bends those boughs.

Q. During what month is a woman most likely to be her heaviest?

A. January. The month she most likely weighs the least is September.

Do expect to take 50,000 car trips in your lifetime? Averagers predict you’ll do it. Analyze that one on your new computer.