Trivia

On each of the 700 islands in the Bahamas are Cerion snail shells unique to their specific island. Bring back one shell from any one dot in that wet chain, and the scientists can tell you precisely which island you were on.

Almost but not quite half the scientists on Earth are reportedly working on military projects.

The 12 most important foods in the world, it’s said, are barley, rice, rye, oats, corn, sorghum, wheat, millet, potato, sweet potato and cassava. Interesting. You can make liquor out of every one of them.

Researchers report their extensive tests indicate “men with high testosterone levels” tend to lack “verbal skills.” That means sexy hulks aren’t usually glib talkers. So can you also construe that fluent talkers tend to be weak lovers? Possibly so, says our Love and War man. He plans to submit the query to experienced opinion on his next field trip.

Can you disprove the ornithologist’s claim that no bird heavier than 40 pounds can fly?

Jacqueline Susann didn’t call her novel “Valley of the Dolls,” not at first. She called it “They Don’t Build Statues to Businessmen.”