Trivia

Do you agree that the movie’s original title “Watch the Skies” was not nearly as good as the title it finally came out with: “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”?

If Earth were the size of a basketball, its crust would be considerably thinner than your eyelid.

Q. Which of the pro football players holds the NFL record for most fumbles in one game?

A. Kansas City’s Len Dawson with seven on Nov. 15, 1964.

Food historians say Caesar Cardini, who created the original Caesar salad in 1924, ridiculed the addition of anchovies to later versions as a “perversion.”

Scientific research suggests the headache is more common in the United States than anywhere else. More frequently reported, anyhow.

An Asian moon rat smells like an onion.

Q. What causes those giant circular ocean currents called gyres?

A. Earth’s rotation.

The owl drops the upper eyelid to wink - even as you and I - but all other birds raise the lower eyelid to wink.

Seven out of 10 employers tell the surveytakers they don’t like the idea of hiring a married couple to work in the same office.