Trivia

Never pick up an electric eel by grabbing both ends at the same time. If you do, you’ll complete the circuit to become the filament in the light bulb, so to speak, and how brightly you’ll burn I do not dare to say.

Faye Dunaway’s first name is Dorothy.

Also once used as money on the Indonesian island of Aler - hard to make change, I imagine - were kettle drums.

Does evening coffee keep you awake? University of Chicago students were once divided into two test groups. Before bedtime, one drank coffee, the other milk. Next morning the coffee drinkers said they slept fitfully, the milk drinkers soundly. Then they were told the milk had been spiked with more caffeine than had been in the coffee.

Said the sage Michael Pritchard: “No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die, the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.”

Indonesia is home to a 5-pound bird that barks. It’s a hornbill known as the Tangkoko red knob. Locals call it “the flying dog.”

No, New Jersey wasn’t exactly named in honor of Julius Caesar, but it was named after England’s Jersey island, and that was a variation of Caesar’s island.