Trivia

A rabbit under threat can stay absolutely motionless for hours.

One-cent gum ball machines were all over the place once. Those that had mirrors on them always collected more pennies than other kinds in the same locations.

“Diaper” has been around for centuries as the word for a diamond-shaped weave, but only in the past 150 years or so has it been specifically a baby’s bottom wrap.

It’s no surprise to learn another golfer has been hit by lightning. Once it was no surprise to hear that another church bell ringer had been hit by lightning. That was the typical fatality in electric storms way back when. Because the bell ringers went up to ring storm warnings.

Q. Where in the world does the typical married couple sleep in a single nightgown?

A. That used to be traditional 100 years ago in what’s now Ethiopia.

That wall we call The Great Wall of China is the second such. Another had been built along part of the same site 1,500 years earlier during the Sui Dynasty. Spy satellites can trace its remains.