Trivia

Q. Wasn’t Jackie Kennedy the first and only widow of a U.S. President to marry again?

A. The second. First was Mrs. Grover Cleveland, who married a Princeton professor named Thomas Preston.

Q. Do Belgians routinely eat horse meat?

A. About a third of them do.

Q. How tall were Wilt Chamberlain’s parents?

A. Both 5-foot-8.

“In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current.” So said Thomas Jefferson, who did a little of both.

Long before your time and mine, junk food was called “lubberwort.”

Seek pleasure. Avoid pain. So advised that philosophical Greek Epicurus. That convinced almost everybody he was smart. It’s also true that Epicurus thought the sun was about 2 feet in diameter.

In 1934, France’s Charles De Gaulle put out “The Army of the Future,” a book of his bright ideas on how to mechanize warfare. From it German designers picked up considerable counsel to create their Panzer divisions. These in 1940 drove the German attack to defeat France. Moral: Your ego is of interest to the enemy.