Trivia

Chance you’ll survive a car crash at 75 mph is only one in 40. At 65 mph, one in 20. At 55 mph, one in eight. That, from the safety sources.

Q. What brigadier general went into combat after he’d served as U.S. president?

A. John Tyler. In the Confederate Army. He was the U.S. president whose body lay in an unmarked grave for 40 years.

“Proxemics” is the study of how far apart people stand when they walk, talk, wait in line, whatever.

Among men who misplace the television remote, more leave it in the refrigerator than in the bed. Market researchers found in that simple fact certain subtleties salable to pajama purveyors and food furnishers as well as TV set makers. Cagey bunch, those market researchers.

Japanese cranes need about 30 feet of runway to take off.

Claim is scientists know more about dinosaurs than they know about giant squid.