Trivia

If you elect to use the word “hircine,” better use it selectively. It means “smells like a goat.”

Q. What makes turquoise blue-green?

A. Copper for blue, iron for green. The greener the stone, the less valuable, say the experts. What the gem collectors prize most, it’s said, is the robin’s egg blue.

Dolphins use midwives.

Q. What do the doctors called the surgical removal of part of a lung?

A. “Pneumonectomy.”