Trivia

In Thailand, marriage is regarded as an institution wherein the husband may be president but the wife usually is treasurer. Women there traditionally have owned approximately half of the real estate

Q. What first led people to believe the earth was round?

A. The curve of its shadow in a lunar eclipse.

The more physically attractive the woman in college, the less likely she’ll be happy 25 years later. Or so some psychologists say their studies suggest.

Q. What’s the best-selling appetizer in restaurants nationwide?

A. Shrimp cocktail, still.

Client asks, “Didn’t there used to be a law that freed a condemned man automatically if by some chance he survived the execution?” Researchers have turned up no such law. Those empowered to reprieve have done so upon occasion after a noose or chair failed to kill, but nothing ever made that automatic. Promoters of the must-reprieve usually have opened their arguments, reasonably, with, “If God had meant this man to die …,” or words to that effect.

Q. What’s the largest U.S. city founded in this century?

A. Nevada’s Las Vegas, research suggests.