Trivia

Scholars who study the very ancients say the average age of the hunter-gatherers was 16.

Q. How much money do you have to make to be in the “upper middle class”?

A. About $70,000 a year, says one expert. But there are those who say $66,000. And $50,000. Depends on the income of the expert, I imagine.

Abraham Lincoln’s portrait on the penny is the only one on a current U.S. coin on which the profile faces right.

“Whooping cranes mate for life.” That’s a fact. Your assignment, if you choose to accept: Write it as the first line of a four-line poem and hand it in before Friday.

One out of every five buyers of cell phones at last report was in the 12-to-17 age bracket.

If the baby bird is helpless at birth, it’s listed as “altricial.” If it’s not, it’s “precocial.”

That award given annually by the Science Fiction Writers of America for the best fiction in the genre is called the Nebula.