Trivia

Q. Has a picture of a Native American ever appeared on U.S. currency?

A. Paper money? Indeed. Pocahontas was depicted on the back of a $20 bill in 1875.

Show your class a cartoon depiction of a school of fish with one fish separate from the others, and ask each student to comment on that one fish. Some will describe it as a superior, proud character. Others will say it’s a lonely, rejected individual. You then will know nothing more about the fish but something more about each student.

That athlete most likely to break a toe is the female ballet dancer.

When is the prime of life? Depends on the beast. Among men, it’s said, the physical prime is in the early 20s, the mental prime in the early 50s. Among herring, the prime is about at age 10. That’s not physical or mental; it’s gastronomical. They taste better then.

Q. What do I call the white of my eye?

A. The sclera.