Trivia

So many deaths of the ill and aged occur between midnight and breakfast time that some medical statisticians say: No matter how sick you may be, if you’re still alive at 10 o’clock in the morning, odds are you’ll live another day.

Do you believe in “true love”? Eighty-four percent of all those queried in one more poll on the matter said they thought it was genuine. But only 52 percent of the people ages 75 and older said they’d kept their faith in it. Our Love and War man has addressed this question repeatedly. To wit: “If you believe, it’s real.”

Q. What did Spike Lee do before he made movies?

A. Wrote ad copy.

The wolverine marks its food caches with a musk so foul that all other animals retreat from its stench.

This may interest you someday: Women generally live longer than men, true, but men, once they’re over 85, tend to live healthier active lives longer than the over-85 women.

Alexander the Great, Louis XIV and Napoleon hated cats, it’s said, because those imperious potentates couldn’t stand anyone who didn’t come when called.

History records that German naval officers of 1880 were the first group of people to wear wristwatches. They were gold. Girard Perregaux of France made them.

If you’d like a white-coat term for “pregnancy,” you’re welcome to “cyophoria.”