Trivia

Long ago in what is now the United States was a string of Spanish missions, one day’s ride apart, called San Francisco, Santa Catalina, Santa Cruz, San Miguel, and more. Hardly anybody now realizes they were in Florida. Gone, all gone. Mud missions don’t last forever in Florida.

Claim is there’s no place on earth you can go by plane, train or car where the people don’t understand the word “pipeline.”

“A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he wants. A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item she doesn’t want.” So said that purveyor of opinions William Binger.

Dutch researchers have reported the intelligence of children in a family tends to decrease successively from oldest to youngest. If true, that first-born in Benjamin Franklin’s family must have been a whiz. Ben was No. 15 among 17 children.

The Oxford English Dictionary lists 234 meanings for the word “get.”

On a deck of 52 regular playing cards, only 22 look identical when turned either way.