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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Trivia

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

No U.S. president has ever had a key to the White House front door.

European monarchs of old sometimes required peasants to travel the rough lower roads to wherever - so the kings would not be bothered by traffic on their elevated smoother roads. One word tracer says that eventually gave us “highway.”

Q. At what room temperature is the fertility of the human female at its highest?

A. Approximately 64 degrees F. Research reveals that to be the claim of one Baylor University medical authority.

Fix that! “Coyote” comes from the Nahautl language of the Aztec.

The four-plate stove wasn’t big enough to accommodate the pans of the Pennsylvania Dutch. They came up with a six-plater for a wider range of cooking space. That’s where it got its name: “range.”

No game has more books written about it than chess.

Why call that dog called a Great Dane? It’s German. Or was.