Trivia

Men fall in love with women more quickly than women fall in love with men. Do you buy that? It’s the current claim of numerous psychologists. They say one out of every four men believes he’s in love on the first date. But only one out of every six women thinks she’s in love even by the fourth date.

Some toothpastes contain myrrh.

Q. Where’s the world’s biggest popcorn processing plant?

A. Near the corn. In Sioux City, Iowa.

Baby chicks, ducklings, goslings - little birds of almost all kinds - are born to recognize and flee from the silhouettes of hawks.

In about 50 percent of all American households there are guns. What’s curious, I think, is not the percentage but the fact that the percentage doesn’t change from decade to decade. Whether public feeling of the moment suggests guns are desirable or undesirable, the percentage of citizens who own them remains about the same.

Building contractors in Colonial times were called undertakers. Inasmuch as they had the tools, they were called upon sometimes to construct coffins and dig holes.