Trivia

How many musical instruments can you come up with that are never out of tune yet can’t be tuned? Start with the cymbal.

Q. Was any tuberculosis in the Western Hemisphere before the European colonists came here?

A. It was, and long before. DNA tests and autopsies of mummies so indicate.

Typically, a fifth of your household electricity feeds your refrigerator. Fair enough.

Passenger airbags by the year 2000 are expected to injure fatally one person for every six they save. This, according to an analysis of government data on the matter. Q. How long has the sale of contraceptives been legal in Ireland?

A. Since 1979.

Thirty-seven percent of 19-year-old Americans now use their own credit cards, it’s reported.

The Nevada Test Site is about the size of Rhode Island.

A 6-pound kiwi female carries a 1-pound egg.

Nine different languages are printed on India’s banknotes.

An old law in Georgia once made it illegal there, for reasons unexplained, to slap a friend on the back.

Yes, if you’re “mingy,” you’re “mean and stingy.” It’s in the dictionary.