Trivia

First time humans used lead, insofar as it’s known, was when they loaded dice with it. Or so it’s suggested in the historical footnote.

If you’re going to set up your own household aquarium, remember the counsel of experts: Let it run a week before you put in any fish. And don’t put in a whole batch at once.

“Women like candy, men like cake.” So it once was said. Women baked cakes for men, and men bought candy for women. Long outdated, that, I suppose. Bake her a cake, young fellow, and thank her for her divinity.

Q. Two of the three words with the largest number of slang synonyms are “drunkenness” and “money.” What’s the third?

A. Sex.

Q. What made Beethoven deaf?

A. Paget’s disease, doctors now believe. They say his large head with its broad brow are characteristic of the disease. Abnormal bone growth crushed his auditory nerves, they think. As his hearing failed, Beethoven pretended he was absent-minded.

Africans in Africa don’t choose to eat many sweets, says one of same.