Trivia

Nobody knows how many real mummies are left in Egypt. As few as a thousand, one expert says. Alchemists and their ilk ground up a bunch to make medicine. Also mummies once were stacked like cordwood on train tenders to fuel locomotives. Mummies burned hot.

I heard a man say: “An economist is just an accountant without the personality.”

“Set your water heater’s temperature at 130 degrees F.,” advises an expert. “A lower setting won’t kill all the bacteria.”

Q. To what do you attribute the fact that lions never attack head on?

A. Genetic memory. Most beasts they’ve attacked have stabbing horns and slashing front hooves.

People used to believe beans grew around the stalk the wrong way on leap years. That’s people for you.