Trivia

Tue., July 2, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

A bureau that tracks auto thievery says that line of labor is seasonal - mainly from April to August.

An athletic tiger can pounce 30 feet.

Sea-life scientists have specified more than 200 kinds of catfish. Undoubtedly a lot of them out there remain undesignated.

Why youngsters almost universally dislike oily odors has been proved but not explained.

Polar bears have been known to eat the seats of snowmobiles.

Q. What do miners call that little rail truck they haul coal on? A. A dan.

Yesteryear’s complete cynic Oscar Levant made life work out of mastering the putdown. Example: “I’m going to memorize your name and throw my head away.”

The American Medical Association sometime back put out a tome called “Book of Back Care,” wherein it made clear that a saloon needs a bar rail. The customer, sitting or standing, it said, suffers less back strain with one foot on the rail.

The cigar shark is fully grown when it’s 4-1/2 inches long.

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