Trivia

Lewis and Clark hired the French Canadian trader Charbonneau to guide them west. He didn’t know what he was doing. His wife Sacajawea took over. She was great. They thanked her, and paid him.

Client writes: “The tragedy is the blue whale has a four-ton tongue, and no ice cream cone.”

Pose this query to the physics whiz in the family: “If you can make a kinetic watch powered by motion of a wrist, why can’t you build a kinetic boat powered by motion of the sea waves?”

Actor John Forsythe started out as John Freund.

If you were suddenly left alone, would you try to rekindle an old romance from your distant past? Too personal, skip it. Still, researchers have found enough data on this matter to report just about everyone suddenly set at liberty considers the notion, and about one in 10 goes so far as to make phone calls and write letters toward that end.

Q. What do the people in Italy’s Naples mean when they say, “France or Spain, as long as we eat.”

A. What’s now Italy has been divided up so many times by so many European powers that some locals take a care-little view about who’s in power. It’s an outdated saying. Italy has been united since 1861.

Consider the size of Indonesia. It’s 3,200-mile breadth stretches into both the Indian and Pacific oceans. Overlaid on North America, it would stretch from Oregon to Bermuda.

A quick flea can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.

Q. Did the ancient Chinese play ball games?

A. At least one of record. Zuju. A little like soccer. They used a leather ball stuffed with hair.

Claim is about 150 million Americans are priced out of the legal system by high fees of counsel.