Trivia

NCAA college football teams with “cat” nicknames Lions, Tigers, Cougars … outnumber those with “dog” nicknames Bulldogs, Huskies, Terriers. .. by more than 2-to-1.

More than half the world’s electricity is still generated by burning coal.

Q. Where have most of the whales been caught?

A. Near the seas’ ice edges.

British military doctors once recommended their uniformed folk either smoke tobacco or grow mustaches to filter out germs.

Q. What’s it called when a flock of birds or a school of fish all turn at exactly the same time?

A. “Allelomimetic behavior.” Can you explain how they know when to do it? Neither can I.

“Who begins too much accomplishes little.” That’s an old German proverb. But America’s Henry David Thoreau didn’t buy it, evidently. He said, “In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. … They’d better aim at something high.”

Q. Don’t all bears have flat feet?

A. That they do. They walk the way you’d walk if you walked on your hands.