Trivia

Q. Is bamboo really as strong as concrete?

A. Stronger. It’s even as strong as steel. And you know how fast it grows. Our Chief Prognosticator thinks bamboo farms someday will supply the world’s building trades.

Three out of five American babies are named after relatives.

Those experts on body building say: No matter how diligently you exercise your abs, you won’t get that washboard look unless you diet off the fat in front of them.

It’s no trick for a saltwater crocodile to cruise out to sea 100 miles. Or to hike inland 100 miles. It’s a coastline creature, all right. But in this it’s not unique. Most of the world’s people are concentrated on coastlines, too.

From 1939 to 1945, an average of 388,000 civilians died every month, listed in the history books now as casualties of World War II.

A consumer fact sheet says plain chocolate has a longer shelf life than chocolate with nuts. In some places maybe. With or without nuts, it has hardly any shelf life at all around here.