Trivia

How many hits do you figure you can get out of a good baseball bat? Absurd question? All right, but Hall of Fame shortstop Honus Wagner didn’t think it absurd. He believed 100 hits were about tops and threw away a bat after it had served up that many.

Half the bad checks buy liquor.

Any mountain climber will tell you the temperature drops 3.3 degrees F. each 1,000 feet up. Usually.

Q. What’s a “Henry V kiss”?

A. A theatrical term. The man steps up behind the woman, reaches around her head, takes her face in his hands, turns her mouth toward his, and kisses her over her shoulder.

The wrist structure of the human female differs from that of the male. Therefore, how women and men manipulate things differs. It’s seen quite clearly in the washing of the hands. Women use a rotary motion, men a piston motion.

A baby otter is called a whelp, too.

Q. What killed Beethoven?

A. Cirrhosis of the liver.

That animal most frequently envisioned by sick drinkers in delirium tremens is not a pink elephant but a gray dog.

Q. U.S. grain consumption has gone up 100 percent since the 1970s. Why?

A. Pizza, pasta and Mexican food.