Trivia
Q. What did Pratt & Whitney make before it made engines?
A. First, interchangeable parts for Civil War rifles. Then metalworking machines. Pratt & Whitney money also underwrote the first pay telephones.
Scared goats faint.
Q. What’s the “Demi” in “Demi Moore” stand for?
A. Demetria.
Q. Does California have any salt lakes like Utah’s?
A. Not that big. But in California’s Imperial Valley, the Salton Sea, known until 1905 as the Salton Sink, is 25 percent saltier than the Pacific and getting more so by the minute.
If you don’t know what a “dandiprat” is, take a guess. Never mind. It’s an old English coin once valued under three halfpence.
Not all aging comedians can confess an honest admiration for upstart comics, but the legendary Fred Allen was not so limited. Of one newcomer, Allen said, “He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.”
Oceans would rise three feet if their temperatures rose 2 degrees, say sea scientists.