Trivia

Q. I’ve read there was no litigation in England’s London during 1664? Why not?

A. Black plague drove all the lawyers out of town.

Q. Who played the first openly gay main character on network television?

A. Billy Crystal. As Jodie Dallas on ABC’s “Soap” from 1977 to 1981.

Averagers say about 20 babies a year are born in Chicago taxicabs.

Yamazaki Nabisco sells its Oreo cookies without the filling. Too sweet, say the Japanese.

Golf may have been invented by the Romans or the Danes or the Scots, but much of its vernacular was born in the United States: par, birdie, eagle, chip, sudden death, the 19th hole….

Q. Does the moon have quakes the way the earth has quakes?

A. Little ones, yes, that release only about as much energy as legal firecrackers.

Q. Where and when did the first automatic teller machines come out?

A. England. In 1965.