Trivia

Islam adapted its public baths from old Rome.

Market researchers in the kitchen appliance industry report the life expectancy of the average dishwasher to be 10 years. Your statistical chances of surviving a snakebite in Australia, if such be your fate, are about 50-50.

In the steeplechase races of the ancient Greek Olympics, the jockeys wore nothing, and you can say the same for the horses.

Q. What were Pancho Villa’s last words?

A. “Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.”

Q. How many of today’s big-league baseball fields were built before 1960?

A. Five. Fenway Park, 1912. Tiger Stadium, 1912. Wrigley Field, 1914. Yankee Stadium, 1923. Milwaukee County Stadium, 1953.

You can stop your hiccups by pressing ice cubes, frozen pea packs, cans or bottles of soda, whatever’s cold, against your throat at the sides of your Adam’s apple. They affect the nerve that triggers diaphragm spasms. Or so says one medical specialist.