Trivia

Malted milk was invented in the late 1880s as a baby formula.

Q. Were there really all that many battles between the Army and the Indians in the Old West days?

A. From 1849 to 1881, the record lists 1,073 such combat actions.

The corncob pipe makers used to get four pipes out of each cob. Still do maybe, don’t know.

Q. What’s the “Bolshoi” in Bolshoi Ballet mean?

A. “Grand.”

Arsenic stopped being the “perfect murder weapon” in 1775 when a Swedish chemist named Scheele found a way to detect it in the body.

First western televised in color was “Bonanza.”

Q. Harry S. Truman said the S in his name stood only for S, nothing more. So why do newspapers put a period after it?

A. Editors of the Associated Press Stylebook conferred with Truman about it in the late 1960s, then included the period in their standard manual for the newspaper industry.

Medical researchers still say they’re convinced no animal besides man gets headaches, but they don’t say what has convinced them.