Trivia

You know why strong winds make horses nervous? It interferes with their sense of smell. They rely greatly on that.

Q. Who was the first woman admitted to practice law in the United States?

A. Arabella A. Mansfield of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, received that distinction in June of 1869, researchers report.

Australia and Antarctica separated 50 million years ago. Irreconcilable differences.

Q. Are any lions left in Asia?

A. About 250 at last report. Countless Asiatic lions once ranged from the Middle East to India, but except for about 20 in the Gir Forest of northwestern India, were killed off by 1913.

Researchers asked numerous American college women if they could envision happy lives for themselves without marriage, and one in seven said yes. When the query was put to English women, about one in four said yes. Approximately one in three Norwegian women said yes.

Used to be rabbits only in Spain and the southern edge of France, and scholars say they might’ve died out there, if the Romans hadn’t carted them all over Europe.