Trivia

Sat., Sept. 14, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

In baseball, volleyball and tennis, a ball that hits the line is “in.” In basketball, football and soccer, it’s “out.” Can get confusing, yes?

Medical researchers interviewed 858 men and women to conclude “sexual activity rarely causes heart attacks.” They questioned only the living.

Q. How do you explain why more people watch a moon eclipse than a sun eclipse?

A. A solar eclipse is visible only in a narrow geographic band around earth. A lunar eclipse can be seen by everybody who can see the moon.

At the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1984, scholars pursued a new specialty: battlefield archaeology. Their examinations of the ground and what lay under it gave historians a fresh respect for the Indian tactics. No surprise, the Indians won. More recently, the diggers studied the MexicanAmerican Battle of Palo Alto in South Texas. They found fewer reasons to respect the Mexican tactics. No surprise, the Americans won. Work goes on.

Odds are you and I eat too much of the mineral known as halite. It’s table salt.

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