Trivia
A U.S, Treasury Bond that matures in 2007 is known on Wall Street as the “James Bond.”
More than half the whales in the oceans are less than 15 feet long.
Was long thought the man is more adventurous than the woman. Researchers know, however, that more women than men migrate from city to city in search of whatever.
If it’s “esculent,” it’s edible.”
Q. Where’d those fact-finders get the claim that cities with major league baseball teams have a divorce rate 23 percent lower than cities without them?
A. From the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver. Reported in The Old Farmer’s Almanac, 1996.
A renowned scientist of the 1700s, Henry Cavendish was so extraordinarily shy he allowed no company. He built a separate entrance to his house so he wouldn’t have to meet anyone. Sometimes, he talked to one person or another, a little, but never to two together. Mostly he wrote notes. If he spoke last words, nobody else heard them. He wouldn’t let anyone near his deathbed.