Trivia

Q. Ask your Love and War man what you call a husband who dotes on his wife so much he bends to her every whim?

A. “Uxorious.” It’s specific to doting husbands, not doting wives.

What’s planned to be the world’s tallest building now is on the drawing board in China. By 2001, it’s reported, the Shanghai structure will be 1,518 feet high - 56 feet higher than the Sears Tower.

Arabian owners say their breed of horse has a larger brain cavity than others.

Lobster Newberg got its start in New York City’s Delmonico’s. A man named Wenberg brought the recipe up from the Caribbean. Excellent, excellent. It went on the menu as Lobster Wenberg. Then one night Wenberg got drunk and tore up the main dining room. He was told to go away, and the dish was given a “new” name.

Something else you can do to while away time at stoplights - have I said this before? - is count toothless animal life that bites. Start with birds, turtles and octopuses.

The recyclers can make a 6-foot park bench out of 1,050 plastic milk jugs.

Check your watch. To burn 100 calories, you have to chop wood for 4 minutes 30 seconds. Go.

“Taiwan chewing gum” is a betel nut, not a gum. It grows on palms. Locals spike it with flavored stimulants and munch it at length. Note: Medic suggests it’s addictive.

Earth scholars estimate about a fourth of the dissolved minerals in the oceans eroded off the Himalayas.