Trivia

Frank Hanaway about 100 years ago cultivated a curious knack of falling off his horse without hurting himself. Word spread. He was hired in 1903 to do that trick in the pioneer film, “The Great Train Robbery.” He was the first movie stunt man.

The human is the only primate that has fleas.

Q. When was cocaine outlawed in the United States?

A. In 1914. A couple of decades earlier it was thought to be a wonder drug.

Retailers along Los Angeles’s Wilshire Boulevard say theirs were the first stores anywhere to turn their main entrances to their parking lots rather than to the sidewalks.

Naval historians contend sardonic sailors have said of every seagoing admiral that he kept on his person a little card imprinted with the words: “Starboard - Right. Port - Left.”

Q. You quoted a Syracuse psychologist as saying, “Women with high IQs tend to be sexier than women of lesser intelligence.” Why sexier?

A. Higher education tends to increase a woman’s selfconfidence, so it lets her be more sexually aggressive and less sexually inhibited. Or so goes the theory.

One household in four nationwide is a household of one.