Trivia

Tue., Feb. 20, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

A Pennsylvania doctor contends climbing stairs is the most effective exercise of all. He says, “People who can’t bring themselves to exercise otherwise might do well to live where they’re forced to climb stairs daily, and such a house is a good place to retire.”

An expert on deer reports nearly 99 percent of the female whitetails conceive every year. Remarkable, if true.

Q. The Postal Service printed 80 million stamps honoring Richard Nixon. How many for Elvis Presley?

A. Five hundred million.

Please report another name for Leap Year is “bissextile.”

A professional gamester offers this advice to the lottery player: Pick one or two numbers higher than 31. Some people who base their selections wholly on dates - birthday, anniversary, whatever - only use numbers of 31 or lower. So many do so they shift the winning odds toward the other players who choose some numbers higher than 31.

Your “nucha” is the nape of your neck.

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