Trivia

Fri., Sept. 20, 1996

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Q. Do a lot of people have diabetes without knowing it?

A. Many. Specifically, about 8 million Americans, medical estimators say.

Q. What’s “Rafferty’s Rules”?

A. Australian slang for no rules.

Q. What’s the “gambler’s fallacy”?

A. The false notion that repetition changes the odds. Examples: If you flip a coin five times, always getting tails, the odds you’ll get heads on the sixth flip are still no better than the odds on each previous flip. If you have five sons consecutively, odds are no better that your fifth child will be a girl. If a heavy hitter strikes out five times at the plate, odds are no better for a hit during the sixth up-to-bat.

A square inch of skin on your hands contains about 72 feet of nerve fiber.

One out of five sunflower seeds in the United States winds up in bird feed.

Takes 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon.

Q. How old are most of the regular Internet users?

A. Average, 33, and rising. More than 31 percent are female. About 73 percent are in the United States.

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