Trivia

That mammal with the highest normal blood temperature is the goat, averaging 103.8 F.

Ask your family feline fancier how many rows of whiskers are on a cat’s face. Four is the answer. Longer whiskers are in the two middle rows. That cat has between 25 and 30 such whiskers, if average.

Sheep don’t swim on purpose.

Gatherers of financial stats say 40 percent of the baby boomers owe more than they own.

Their claim remains unverified elsewhere, but some scholars at the University of California’s Riverside Division of Biological Control contend people who eat a lot of garlic aren’t bitten by mosquitoes much, if at all.

“Comus” was a god of festive mirth. He presided over humor. So gave us our word “comic.” He also drank too much and passed out. So gave us our word “coma.” Inebriated comedians go way back.

It’s a matter of historical record that Dr. Sigmund Freud, the world’s foremost authority in his day on sex, voluntarily put an end to his own indulgences in physical romance at about the age of 40.

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