Trivia

After every war, the military tallies up its surplus goods, but it does not always dispose of same. When it checked after World War II, for example, it found 150,000 World War I saddles. Many no doubt were Spanish American War saddles. Some maybe even Civil War saddles.

“Caesar and Cleo” changed their names to “Sonny and Cher” even before they changed partners and professions.

Chess genius Bobby Fischer didn’t graduate from high school.

Jay Cooke was a Philadelphia lawyer during the Civil War. He invented that phenomenon called the “national bond drive.” It has been financing wars ever since.

The original ale testers of London were known as “conners,” but that may not be the origin of every spelling of the surname “Connors.”

The Swedish writer August Strindberg wrote, “I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.”

The original “sugar daddy” was any of the early sugar sellers, operating out of Havana, mostly. They became immensely rich before overproduction deflated their markets. That many kept younger women as pets popularized the term. But the word “sugar” in it at first alluded to real sugar, not just money, before “sugar” turned into slang for money.