Trivia

The man who discovered the planet Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, searched for it with a reflector made from a cream separator and the crankshaft of his father’s 1910 Buick.

It was an allusion to the gloves of “folks,” not “foxes,” that gave us the word “foxglove.”

Q. In the Mississippi’s greatest era, steamboats plying the river numbered 11,000. How many are there today?

A. Three.