Trivia

Q. If Genghis Kahn and his offspring in the 1200s didn’t create the largest empire ever known, who did?

A. The British in the 1800s.

English is listed in textbooks as the language of rock-and-roll. Most rock-and-roll maybe.

The lobster always backs into its burrow.

Before 1959, most drug-treatment places locked in their patients. After 1959, most such facilities allowed patients to leave whenever. That switch from “You will!” to “Will you?” is said to have made a big difference in the real recovery rates.

On Tuesday, expect the only Christmas Eve full moon in this half of the century.

History records that the Iroquois suffered numerous respiratory and eye ailments. It also notes they lived in longhouses without chimneys.

Am repeatedly asked to identify again the title and author of the 50,000-word novel with no “e” in it. That was “Gadsby.” One Ernest V. Wright wrote it in 1939.

Annie Mae Bullock achieved considerable fame, all right, but not until she started calling herself Tina Turner.