Trivia

Q. Didn’t all domestic mammals descend from wild species that are social rather than solitary?

A. All except the cat.

Q. My husband and I don’t seem to prefer the same people for close friends, and our argument today is whether that’s unusual for married couples …?

A. Evidently not. University of Nebraska researchers sometime back asked a sizable sampling of matrimonial mates individually to jot down names of their closest friends. Partners agreed only on about three out of 10 names.

In Brazil’s interior, I’m told, eggs are sold by the meter.

After a boa constrictor eats a goat, that snake doesn’t have to eat again for a year. Nor does the goat, might add.

Q. How much money does the average Japanese major league baseball player make?

A. At last report, $433,103 a year.

The American poet Amy Lowell liked to smoke cigars. Literary footnotes indicate she bought 10,000 of her favorite Manillas in 1915 as a hedge against future wartime shortages.

One out of three suicides nationwide is somebody aver age 60.

Bats’ knees bend backwards.