Trivia

Raindrops contain a lot more water than similarly-size hailstones.

Don’t have time to tell you why a cat’s urine glows under a black light. Ask your dad.

Believe I forgot to mention Florida is bigger than England.

People wore mantles. They draped them to dry from shelves over fireplaces. After awhile, the mantles were more often called cloaks and the shelves became known by a small spelling alternative as mantels.

Not everyone realizes babies are born without knee caps.

Joseph C. Gayette of New York City invented toilet paper in 1857. There is no national Joseph C. Gayette Day or anything like that. You don’t hear much about him.

In 1913 at Calumet, Mich., during a Christmas party for families of copper miners, somebody yelled, “Fire!” Panic! Seventy-two people, mostly children, were trampled to death. This was neither the first nor last such instance. But it was the one that taught everybody how dangerous it is in crowds to yell “Fire!”

That old law of Indiana, the one that stipulated any man who “habitually kisses human beings” cannot wear a mustache, certainly exempted some weird people.

Dolphins get stomach ulcers, too.