Trivia

Importance of play is underrated, maybe. “I was playing when I invented the aqualung,” says underwater pioneer Jacques Cousteau. “I think play is the most serious thing in the world.”

Correct, rodeo riders insist no horse, no matter how mean, will deliberately step on a thrown rider.

A giraffe can’t tell orange from green.

No snow anywhere else worldwide is lighter or cleaner than that small whisper of snow that falls on Antarctica.

The hypodermic needle was invented in 1853 after physicians said morphine would not be addictive if it bypassed the digestive tract. They were wrong, but the needle offered such quick relief from pain they deemed it a godsend, anyway.

What a lot of kitchen mechanics don’t know is baby-cut carrots aren’t really a dwarf variety but full-sized carrots peeled and polished down.

Midnight is 12 p.m. Noon is 12 m. There is no 12 a.m.

Not all recall that the miniskirt of 1965 later was promoted to high popularity with the primary purpose of selling the new pantyhose.