Trivia

Q. What’s the difference between a “wind” and a “draft”?

A. Wind flows horizontally, draft vertically.

Claim is a normal grown gorilla can bench-press about 4,000 pounds.

Weather watchers say a whistle sounds louder just before rain. Mill hands say the whistle sounds louder at the end of the shift. Coaches say a whistle sounds louder when it’s blown against your team.

Back Alley Science: Stay cool, man. If you don’t sweat, you don’t leave fingerprints.

Once, clay bricks were called “knickers,” and the man who baked them a “knicker baker.” That evolved into the surname “Knickerbocker.” Later, loose pants to the knees came to be so called because Washington Irving’s fictional Diedrich Knickerbocker wore same.

All cruise ships have ants, says a crew veteran.

Q. When are you going to tell me which continent was named after a pickle peddler?

A. Maybe two continents? Can report immediately that the explorer Amerigo Vespucci, antecedent of the names of North and South America, once sold pickles in Seville, Spain.

Vikings kept their cows in the house. The house warmed the cows. The cows warmed the house. Works that way.

Egypt’s “Cairo” was named for Mars.