Trivia

If that oyster is a true Blue Point, it was harvested before it was fully grown.

You’ve read much about horse shoes, so why is it you’ve read so little about horse socks? Such there be. Some city police stables fit their horses with pads between the metal and the hoof - they’re called horse socks.

Q. How come some grownups can drink milk and others can’t?

A. Those descended from ancestors who drank milk as adults to survive - such as the northern Europeans - inherited the milk digesting enzyme. Those descended from ancestors who did not drink milk as adults to survive - most people worldwide - did not inherit that enzyme.

The singer called Hammer started out as Stanley Kirk Burrell.

History suggests that about half the colonial women in America of 1776 could write their names.

In any area where doctors go out on strike, the human death rate drops. “Always,” researchers say. At least three independent studies have shown it.

Consider the young who leave home early, then come back to live when they’re a few years older. Specifically, returnees in the 25-to-29 age bracket. Statisticians report their number has nearly doubled in the last 20 years.

The sexual organ of the male spider is at the end of one leg.