Trivia

A women’s stock of shoes should be big enough to let her wear different heel heights every day. So contends a foot doctor. This changes the pressure points on the foot daily. So counters foot trouble. Women have more of that than men do.

Only one classroom in 50 nationwide is wired with phone lines to accommodate Internet access. At this time.

A “biblioriptos” is “one who throws books around.”

A seven-spotted ladybug, when crushed and tamped into a dental cavity, relieves toothache. Or so it was believed centuries ago by those innovators who treated such pain. Pretty time consuming. They went on a lot of field trips.

“Television,” observed the late Paddy Chayefsky, “is democracy at its ugliest.”

History records that Saddam Hussein, given his first revolver at age 7, killed his first man at age 10.

Q. Whose voice first beamed back to Earth from a communications satellite?

A. That of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958.