Trivia

The barbell boys say it takes about twice as long to lose the new muscle after stopping the workouts as it took to gain it.

The octopus mates but once.

Divorced persons who marry again and again stay wed for shorter and shorter periods each time.

Something also can be said of partners, both widowed, who marry again. If they then divorce, statistics show, they usually do so quite quickly. Our Love and War man’s files indicate widows and widowers, when they get together, know what they want. And they don’t devote a whole lot of time to adjustment.

Could you survive on nothing but America’s most popular food and drink? That’s white bread - eaten by 77 percent of the grown-ups. And milk - drunk by 41 percent. You certainly could live on those two. Even grow fat maybe. And a bit morose.

More Americans in this century have died in murders than in wars.

It’s in the record, too, that President Thomas Jefferson had waffles for breakfast not quite but almost every morning.

All the blood in your body pours through your thyroid gland every 17 minutes.