Trivia

Fri., Oct. 25, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

An entrepreneur of note credits his considerable success to two basic principles he learned from baseball: 1. You can’t win a game unless you play. And 2. You can’t steal second without taking your foot off first.

Q. Where are most of the movies’ “Sahara Desert” scenes shot?

A. In Buttercup Valley west of Yuma, Ariz.

Kerosene fungus can live in jet fuel tanks. With a minute amount of water in the tank, it can use the fuel as food.

Q. When has Jerry Seinfeld won an Emmy for his Seinfeld show?

A. He hasn’t. So far. Others who haven’t: Andy Griffith, Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope, Angela Lansbury, Bob Newhart, Cybill Shepherd, the Smothers Brothers, Hal Linden….

Scientists think the food in a single bite by the Tyrannosaurus Rex theoretically could feed a human family of four for an entire month.

Did you read that the railroad station in Deerfield, Ill., has areas clearly designated “Kissing” and “No Kissing”?

Yaks get sick at sea level.

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