Trivia

Lena Gilbert Ford, who wrote the lyrics of the old song “Keep the Home Fires Burning,” died in the fire that burned down her home.

If it looks yellow, then it’s yellow, right? Not quite. It looks yellow because that’s the color it won’t absorb, so the yellow is reflected back to your eye. That’s the color, therefore, it isn’t. Now try selling this to somebody who cares even less than you do.

Not one person on the Mayflower had a middle name.

That emotional condition called “on the rebound” is not just an affliction of the jilted lover, evidently. You can be made vulnerable to a new love-at-first-sight, also, by such emotions as grief, fear, elation. Researchers say accident victims often become enamored of firemen, policemen and 911 medics.

Q. What was the first U.S. building fully heated by steam?

A. Boston’s Eastern Hotel. In 1845. With radiators much like your old school’s before it was torn down.

Foxes dine on duck? Believe it. Studies show foxes kill more mallards in North America than all the human hunters combined.

Thirteen out of every 100 alphabet letters you read are “e’s.”