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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Trivia

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

What’s the deadliest creature in the jungle? When pollsters ask that query in the street, they say, they almost never get the right answer. It’s the mosquito.

One hen’s egg in 10 is brown.

Classics author Jane Austin said, “A large income is the best recipe for happiness I’ve ever heard of.”

Thomas Edison created so many imaginative devices that his simpler inventions often go uncredited. Such as wax paper.

Debate goes on over which “orange” came first - the color or the fruit. Comes from a Sanskrit word that identified the fruit. Didn’t turn into a color name until later.

Q. What is the oldest problem in agriculture?

A. Weeds.

A robin’s blood squirts around its body almost 600 times a minute.

Q. What sport first set up strict regulations against drugs?

A. Horse racing.

Q. What state is the geographic center of North America?

A. North Dakota.

Who changed the name of the Rackensack River to the Arkansas? No poet certainly.