Trivia

Wed., Sept. 18, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

You can save money the next time you buy a boat, if ever, by buying it when there’s snow on the ground. So say those who know the pleasure craft market.

The octopus hunts at night.

That musical anthem of the Civil War South - “Dixie” - was first performed in 1859 in New York City. Where? You heard me.

One out of every 100 people over age 65 nationwide has tried in-line skating, report the surveytakers.

The Venus flytrap doesn’t snap shut on its prey. It closes slowly. So gives tiny insects time to escape. Thus doesn’t use more energy during digestion than it replenishes from what it digests. Pretty smart plant.

Clearly, dogfights gave us “top dog” and “underdog,” but early timbermen popularized the terms. Before power saws, two sawyers dug a pit and dragged logs over it. One cutter stood in the pit, the other up on the edge. The man in the fresh air above was called the top dog, the pit man, dusted deep in sawdust, the underdog.

Steam locomotives are huffing and puffing now on about 70 tourist railroads nationwide.

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