Trivia

Could you shoot down an average of nine buffalo every day of every week of every month for a year? That was typical for a good buffalo hunter during the peak bison years of the 19th century.

In silent surroundings, a diner typically takes 3.23 bites per minute. Put on slow music and the count goes to 3.83 bpm. With fast music it’s 4.4 bpm. Whether a fast-food restaurant really could speed up the turnover by playing The Flight of the Bumble Bee or some such I can’t guarantee, but that remains the working theory.

An ever-hungry 660-pound bird that once lived in what’s now Australia just couldn’t move around fast enough to survive. Post this on the fridge.

Oldest cultivated non-food plant is hemp.

Some historians say Franklin D. Roosevelt’s favorite foods were frog legs, pig knuckles and scrambled eggs, not necessarily on the same plate.

Did I mention Spain has more wild wolves than all of Scandinavia?

Q. Who was the only U.S. president with a brother and sister who were twins?

A. Thomas Jefferson. They were Randolph and Anna.