Trivia

Recent research indicates women write the checks in 75 percent of the U.S. households.

Rarely will you find anybody with more than 140,000 scalp hairs, but when you do, it will be a blonde. Or so say the transplanters.

Wisconsin law is quite specific on this: A railroad conductor will not kiss a passenger.

Q. What do carpenters mean by a “Dutch rose”?

A. That’s an old-timey term for the dent in the wood when the hammer misses the nail.

Unemployment rate of Vietnam veterans is now listed by the Labor Department as 3 percent.

Meteorites are never round.

The origin of “I’ll fix your wagon” eluded our Language Man until a kindly client offered this undocumented explanation: Landrushers needed wagons in good shape for the races to stake out choice parcels of property. But landgrabbers bribed repairmen to “fix” some wagons so they’d break down. Thus, the phrase became sardonic.

Q. How fast does a bird’s heart beat?

A. Depends on size. Big bird - more than 300 a minute. Hummingbird - normally more than 600 beats a minute, sometimes more than 1,000.

Sunglasses were invented long before any other sort of spectacles.