Trivia

Pupils of the eyes dilate when looking at someone with love. But don’t use that phenomenon to test the affection of your companion. Your eyes also dilate when looking at someone with hate.

Police say 80 percent of purse snatchers get away with the purses.

Your brain tissue under a microscope is the color of cotton candy.

Correspondents in the Pacific say some islanders sail their canoes five days to go for cigarettes.

Q. Why did Cleopatra dissolve her pearls in wine?

A. She bet Marc Antony she could drink 10 million sisteria - maybe $500,000 - worth of wine at one sitting. He bit. She dropped two pearls, supposedly her bet’s worth, into her cup, waited however long, then drank the contents to win. Or so goes the story.

Scientists once labeled all their discoveries as “laws.” Not until the 1900s were they forced to call them “theories.”

Sea horses, too, change colors.

Ohio’s Wooster claims credit for this country’s first Christmas tree. German immigrants set it up in 1847.

That African finch called the English sparrow isn’t English and isn’t a sparrow.