Trivia

Stage actors of old cleaned the grease paint off their faces with pork fat. So became known as “hams.”

Half of those who enroll in aerobics classes hurt themselves therein.

Q. How many brides today are what your Love and War man might call utterly inexperienced?

A. One in 13, says he.

Q. Did you ever find out why you get wrinkles on your face as you age but not so much elsewhere on your body?

A. Because your face is the only place where muscles are connected directly to the skin.

In the Sears Roebuck catalog of the early 1920s were about 5,000 different accessories you could bolt, button, wire, strap or otherwise attach to a Model T Ford.

More cats than dogs get rabies. About 32 percent more, in fact.

Recent research suggests 26 percent of the U.S. schools now lock their doors during the day.

The ancient Greeks who ran Sparta didn’t exactly solve the obesity problem, but they resolved it for their city. They just kicked out of town anybody with a bulging midsection. Athens grew.