Trivia

If the earliest “deviled eggs” hadn’t been coated with the hottest available pepper, that common comestible might’ve been called something else.

African eels heading upstream climb, not leap, over dams.

Labor doesn’t strike these days for what it used to strike for. Take the laborers who built the Great Pyramid of Cheops in ancient Egypt. They struck - to get a daily ration of garlic.

When alerted to approaching danger, that heron called the American bittern freezes in position with its neck and head stretched skyward as though to pretend it’s a cattail stalk.

If you’re granted “power of attorney” and exercise same, you’re an attorney. Specifically, an “attorney in fact.” That’s a person empowered to act for another. To be a lawyer, though, you also have to be admitted to practice in a court system. That makes you an “attorney at law.”

Petroleum flies - yes, such there be - live in pools of oil.

In 1825, J.P. Lemiere lashed together two telescopes - any child of 7 could have done it - to go down in history as the inventor of binoculars.