Trivia

Forty-three percent of the frequent fliers say they seldom check their luggage.

What’s a man telling you if he rotates his finger in a circular motion around his ear? No, it depends on your whereabouts. In The Netherlands, he’s saying, “You’re wanted on the phone.”

That people have used playing cards for money is common knowledge. Client asks, What people? The French, mostly. In Canada, first. Then in Paris. In 1685, the Quebec garrison administrator, one Jacques de Meulles, ran out of cash to pay the troops, so wrote them promissory notes on cards. Those cards, and others to follow, circulated for more than a century. In 1790, the revolutionary government of France, did it, too.

“Nothing reveals so much about a woman’s nature,” says one psychologist, “as the way she does her hair.”

People in Washington, Oregon and California keep more cats than people in other states. Or so conclude researchers who examined veterinarians’ records. Could be. Still, not every cat everywhere is taken to a vet. It’s possible the coastal cat folk just worry more about their pets. Or maybe the edge of the Pacific is not the healthiest place for cats. Or possibly… Easy to overthink things, isn’t it?

Q. Was Nero the only Roman emperor who was married to a man?

A. No, history records he was one of several.