Trivia

Sat., Oct. 5, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

It’s said support groups with names that end in “Anonymous” find particularly useful this sage observation by one Hubert Tinley: “Yesterday is a canceled check, tomorrow a promissory note. Today is cash.”

Q. What’s “decimal time”?

A. Based on a 10-day week, each day is divided into 10 hours, each hour into 100 minutes, each minute into 100 seconds. In 1792, the French Republic tried it. The change lasted only 10 years, to the decimal.

Maine reportedly has about 3,000 miles of coastline with at least one island for every mile.

Q. Why are black sheep traditionally regarded as unwanted oddballs?

A. Their wool can’t be dyed.

Q. What’s the most popular piano tune ever written and who wrote it?

A. “Chopsticks.” It was credited on sheet music to one Arthur de Lulli, but researchers say that was the pseudonym of a 16-year-old girl named Euphemia Allen.

Canada has its own native cactus.

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