Trivia

“If you’re new at a school, on a job, or in a prison, be careful of anybody who’s too friendly too soon.” So writes a seasoned soul who claims the triple experience.

Q. What political party did Wyatt Earp support?

A. Republican until his final vote. Living out his years in a tourist court rental room in Los Angeles, he was ill, mostly bedridden. But he got up to vote for the Democratic ticket and the Repeal of Prohibition in the November election of 1928. A few months later - on Jan. 13, 1929 - he died at age 80.

The silk worm breathes through nine holes on each side of its body.

China’s entrepreneurs have come up with what they claim to be a weight-reducing wonder. They call it “Seaweed Soap” and say it washes away pounds. It reportedly has found numerous believing buyers in Hong Kong and Japan. Word is it could make its way across the Pacific. Even as the flu.

Average age of the highest ranking generals in the American Revolution at time of service was 39. In the Civil War, 49. In World War II, 59.

A scientists says: “Outer space itself has no temperature, because without molecules there is no temperature. But space can make objects afloat in it very cold. It’s what’s called ‘a temperature sink.’ It drains heat out of things.”

Now another team of pollsters says its inquiries led it to believe that 18 percent of the people who own pets sleep with same.

In electronic navigation, it’s said, an error in time of one millionth of a second can create an error in position of a quarter of a mile.