Trivia

First known chairs - in the early dynasties of Egypt from about 2686 B.C. to 2181 B.C. - stood on what looked like animals’ legs. They were thrones, really. They did not proliferate. Benches did. Stools, too. But chairs didn’t get around the world until many centuries later.

Distributors of Bibles were sending out an average of about 50 a minute at last report.

Q. Ears of a cricket are in its legs, I read. How many ears does it have?

A. Two hearing organs. On its front legs. It has six legs.

“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it,” said the sage Confucius.

The mother skunk raises the baby skunks, and only occasionally, if ever, does the father skunk have much to do with them, the skunk.

To replace every part of your body that now can be replaced with artificial parts would cost you about $25 million. Such was the recent estimate of medical statisticians.

The great arts of ancient China were poetry, painting and calligraphy - known as “The Three Perfections.”