Trivia

“The secret of business,” said Aristotle Onassis, “is to know something that nobody else knows.”

Q. Who’s the shortest basketball player ever to lead the NBA in rebounding?

A. Charles Barkley at 6-foot-6, research reveals.

A third of the U.S. companies now let some employees work at home on computers with modems. At least part of the time. So report the researchers. Pregnancies are pushing the pattern.

That recreational pursuit of the greatest number of Americans - when they’re not sitting in chairs or lying in bed - is gardening.

In which age bracket do you find the loneliest people? When so queried, most guessers say the over-65 retirees. Not so, according to scholars who’ve studied the matter. They contend youngsters in their early teens can be so listed. The worst year for many, they say, is age 13.

Some dieters announce they’d rather have lemon juice than butter on their baked potatoes. But they use pseudonyms, I think, and insist they only be filmed in shadow image.