Trivia

Q. I know professional baseball players tend to outlive the general population, statistically, but which players live longest?

A. Third basemen. Least long, shortstops and catchers.

The French don’t hold breakfast business meetings. Correspondents say such are thought to be too unsubtle, direct, aggressive. Sense of the attitude is that it’s difficult to be charming at breakfast with more than one companion.

Not everyone realizes that Sir Isaac Newton and Little Richard were both born on Christmas Day.

Q. Ralph DePalma got out of his race car and pushed it across the finish line to win the 1915 Indy 500. How far did he have to push it?

A. A mile and a half.

Historical footnotes about the presidents indicate Jimmy Carter was once clocked as a speed reader at 2,000 words per minute.

TV’s Ellen DeGeneres once tried her hand as a house painter.

If the car calculators have it right, the average cost now to run an auto is 41.8 cents per mile.

If it’s a brownish red celestial body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet, you can call it a “brown dwarf.”