Trivia

A bird has to fly at an average lowest speed of 11 mph to stay aloft.

The Siberian town of Bratsk in the winter of 1971 got snowflakes “as big as footballs.” That’s accepted as fact if in neither your house nor mine in the international weather records.

Q. What’s sort of contraceptive prevents the most births worldwide?

A. Breast feeding.

Libyan proverb: “Silence is the door of consent.”

Q. Only three U.S. major professional teams in the four main spectator sports bear names that don’t end in “s”: The Boston Red Sox and the Chicago White Sox, and … . What’s the third?

A. Utah Jazz.

Consider those romantic partners who dated in school, split up, then reunited years later. One research project suggests two out of three such couples stay together thereafter, and most happily. Our Love and War man finds nothing wrong with those odds.

Albanians are fierce fighters and durable drinkers. Or were, if the historical footnotes left by the ancient Romans have it right. Old Rome ruled what’s now Albania for more than five centuries.

Q. What does the tiger shark eat?

A. Anything, including other tiger sharks.