Trivia

Not every poet is impoverished. Take Old Rome’s Virgil, known mostly for his “Aeneid.” He owned a Roman villa with land.

Thereon, it’s recorded, he buried a common housefly after an elaborate funeral with pallbearers and eulogies for the dead pest. A reverence for all life? Not every poet is idealistic, either.

The ceremony qualified Virgil’s land as a tax-free cemetery.

A seasoned hockey player writes: “Hockey pucks sell for $2 or $4. Your source who listed them for $40 to $100 must have been buying them in case lots.”

The first presidential airplane was called “Sacred Cow.”

Those who study race relations find this curious: In 1910, only 60 percent of all white Americans were native born, but 99.2 percent of all black Americans were native born.

Am told Salt Lake City limits the letter count in its street names to eight.

Q. Those male African snakes called the mamba supposedly wrestle one another over females. How does one win?

A. Pins the other’s head to the ground.

“Tofu” has been described as “french fried nothing.”

Five tablespoons of blood is how much one of your heart’s beats pushes into your arteries.