Trivia

Q. Babies born in May weigh more than babies born in any other month, do they not?

A. In the Northern Hemisphere, they do. In the Southern Hemisphere, November is the big-baby month.

Professional renters say half the people who phone for appointments to see apartments don’t show up.

Report was that maternity deaths dropped greatly in 1847. “Why?” asks a client. That was right after an Austrian doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis told all his fellow doctors to start washing their hands.

Q. What’s the most common first name of middle-aged women in the Russia?

A. Marina.

Q. Why are men’s thumbs proportionately longer than women’s thumbs?

A. Scientists conclude this developed out of the need to grasp. One went so far as to say it suggests women came down out of the trees before men did, but that was treated as humor.me, anyway.

It was Harry S. Truman, too, who said, “There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.”