Trivia

You now can rent a two-bedroom apartment in that central section of New York City known as Manhattan for a mere $2,810, average.

There wouldn’t be so many Mulberry Streets in this country’s towns if early settlers hadn’t tried so hard to raise silkworms.

Q. When did the Amazing Spider Man first show up in the comics?

A. In 1963. That was the year postal zip codes started. And the Beatles came out with “I Want To Hold Your Hand.”

Fortunately, three-toed sloths are extraordinarily inactive even from the beginning. They’re born with claws, you know.

Fish mongers in Olde England found buyers for shark skins. Medieval knights made sword handle grips out of them.

A laboratory researcher hoped to find a perfect lens coating. He repeatedly combined materials, put the mixes between a pair of prisms and shined light upon them to test their properties. After he tried it with cyano-acrylate, he couldn’t pull the prisms apart. He’d just invented super glue.