Trivia

Your fear of being left alone, if that’s your fear, is one of the more common dreads. In the extreme, it’s called “eremophobia.” Doctors say it drives to taverns a lot of people who aren’t all that fond of beer.

The best known detector of land mines, it’s claimed, is still a dog with a trained nose.

A day after the old showman Gene Kelly died, the TV networks showed his classic “Singin’ in the Rain” dance, and you may recall the raindrops appeared quite sharply defined. Because into the tanks that fed the rain-making system, the studio had mixed milk.

Credit Anonymous: “Graffiti is a terrorist attack in the larval stage.”

The Swiss shake hands more frequently than Americans do, and the Japanese bow more frequently than the Swiss shake hands. So says a student of international manners. This is the authority who notes that millions of people worldwide have been taught from childhood never to whistle indoors.