Trivia

Sat., Nov. 23, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

That state with the most acreage of inland water is Alaska.

Flag of the Philippines is said to be the only national flag flown differently in peace or war. It’s partly blue, partly red. Blue is flown on top during peace, red on top during war.

What your old science teacher may not have told you is Galileo also invented the first known instrument for measuring temperature.

Q. Where’s that Temple Street with the stores that stay open 24 hours a day?

A. Hong Kong.

Only two countries each border three oceans: the United States and Canada.

Q. Who was the science fiction writer who invented the artificial heart?

A. If you change “invented” to “imagined,” you can credit author Algis Budrys. He described a blood pump in his novel “Who” five years before Baylor Univeresity’s Dr. Michael DeBakey came out with his “implant interthoracic pump” in 1963.

The Sahara and the Antarctic annually get about the same amount of what the weather reporters call precipitation.

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