Trivia

An owl’s ears are weird. Highly effective, though. One cants up, the other down.

Q. Why don’t we recycle used eyeglasses?

A. U.S. federal law - call it lobby law - prohibits it here.

Turtles have backbones, too.

Q. The more cattle you keep on a range, the fewer the wild animals there. Why?

A. Cattle use up the water in dry seasons.

In 1610, a retired Japanese Samurai named Hachirobei Mitsui pawned a couple of his swords to start a ribbon and komono shop. It became what’s now the world’s oldest department store, Tokyo’s Mitsukoshi.

Q. What’s a “hoarding”?

A. British for “billboard.”

Q. Who was the first basketball player to go straight from high school into the pros?

A. Moses Malone. On Aug. 29, 1974. To the old Utah Stars.

Note that 1892 was when Italy made it illegal for girls to get married before age 12.

To your list of redundancies, please add “daily journal.”