Trivia

The platypus is not the only poisonous mammal, contrary to recent report. List as such, too, that insect-seeker, the short-tailed shrew.

Q. What do examinations of records at alcohol treatment centers tell us about the occupations of patients most likely to show up there?

A. Lawyers, house painters and barbers were listed at the top of one computer run on heavy-drinker files.

Penicillin kills guinea pigs.

During the Civil War, before the word “shoddy” gathered its diverse general meanings, it was a batch of inferior wool yarn made from scraps of used clothing.