Trivia

Q. Why did North American Indians traditionally nurse their baby boys longer and more carefully than their baby girls?

A. They believed males at birth were weaker than females.

Honey is also said to be a natural laxative.

Q. What are “petabytes”?

A. The bytes-size that comes after “terabytes.” Which come after “gigabytes.” Which come after “megabytes.” Which come after “kilobytes.” And “exabytes” follow “petabytes” as surely as nerd follows techno.

Report is at least one cosmetic surgeon operates to make wide feet narrow.

Low-cut dresses on young women turn off 26 percent of the men. Or so pollsters now say. They do not say what low-cut dresses do to the other 74 percent. Our Love and War man will study the matter on his next field trip.

Q. What’s the U.S. president’s Internet e-mail address?

A. “presidentwhitehouse.gov.”

Big fruit bats fly by day. Little insect bats fly by night. Another twain that never meet, that pair.

In this year of the great roller coasters, some airplane pilots say they can’t ride same without getting light-headed. And among these few are some who suffer slight airsick symptoms when they fly in planes as passengers. And among these fewer are some who even feel a little funny in cars when they’re not driving. Matter of control, what?

If you have earthworms around your house, you don’t have termites. They don’t live in the same places.

Your candles will drip less and last longer if you put them in the freezer for an hour or so before you light them.

Q. Go find an Ethiopian and ask him what Addis Ababa means….

A. “New flower.”

Chewing gum is said to raise the blood pressure a little.

Q. What’s a “tower block”?

A. England’s English for high-rise building.

In Brazil, you don’t see people wearing green and yellow in combination. Bad taste. Those are the colors of the national flag.