Trivia

What? Didn’t your literature teacher tell you the term “wild goose chase” came out of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”?

Q. How long has Costa Rica survived without soldiers?

A. At least since 1949, when it adopted a constitution that prohibited a standing army there. Survived, please note, with the highest standard of living in Central America.

The five preferred school lunches nationwide are now reported to be pizza, chicken nuggets, tacos, burritos and hamburgers.

Q. What’s the “soldiers’ disease”?

A. An antique term for morphine addiction. Medical historians say the Civil War created 400,000 morphine addicts.

Those birds that mostly flap when they fly tend to have long, narrow wings pointed at the ends. Those that mostly soar tend to have broad wings with blunt ends.

Ducks can float. And ducks can dive. And some ducks, if they want to, can just plain sink.

Do you buy the taste testers’ claim that a piece of cheese tastes better than a slice of cheese?