Trivia

The Bradypus sloth can twist its head in a 270-degree turn. Its photos look funny.

Item No. 6733B in our Love and War man’s files is this observation set down by the late Ginger Rogers: “When two people love each other, they don’t look at each other. They look in the same direction.”

Q. Vultures hunt by sight not smell, do they not?

A. Hunt, yes. This appears to debunk an old notion among gas line operators. Some think they can locate leaks in rural pipes by pumping rotten meat odors through same, then watching where vultures circle. Evidently not. It is true turkey vultures, once they sight carrion, close in by sense of smell, but it’s their vision that gets them into sniffable distance.

Dandies during the Roman Empire rouged their knees and elbows. They also affected a varicose cosmetic custom, tracing in blue stain the veins in their arms. They thought it distinctive.