Trivia

Fri., May 31, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

History proffers the notion that in 1221 Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in just one hour. I don’t believe it. You know it would have been impossible without TV.

Yaks get sick at sea level.

Q. What suddenly popularized horseshoes in the 1900s after they’d been used only here and there for the previous 10 centuries?

A. Paved roads.

Canada has more fjords than all the other countries put together.

Q. When a lion and tiger mate, the cubs are called ligers if the father is a lion and tiglons if the father was a tiger. So what are the cubs called when a liger mates with a tiglon?

A. Never happens. Such offspring can’t reproduce.

Scholars in the sixth grade class will tell you India used to be part of Antarctica but broke away, drifted north, slid under Asia, and slowly boosted the Himalayas sky high.

Collecting baseball cards is highbrow. New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art has several hundred thousand.

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