Trivia

The “sprang” was an issue of currency in Tibet. Hand-painted on rice paper. Printing inks were a mixture of vegetable matter and yak dung. That was all that made the money inedible.

Q. Again, if you please, what’s a “kleptocracy”?

A. Government by thieves.

If you ask which U.S. president munched peanuts several times daily, you’ll almost invariably get the wrong answer. No, it was Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Those who purport to know say the typical woman in the 18-to-24-year-old bracket puts in about 7-1/2 hours a week in that daily activity - she’s worth it - called grooming.

A study by students who care more than I concludes that the only soul in sorrow over a “bad hair day” is that citizen with the bad hair. Others hardly ever notice.

Men are less inclined than women to talk about their first significant romantic experience. Our Love and War man says a Northwestern University study concludes some attitudes remain from yesteryear. Even now, many women recall their virginity with wistful tenderness, the way they remember childhood dolls, while men still think of their early innocence, if at all, much as they regard acne.