Trivia

Q. What made the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, N.Y., famous?

A. Buffalo chicken wings. That’s where they originated.

The newer the tennis ball at any given moment in a match, the less likely a player will be injured at that moment. Statistical studies indicate that. But they don’t explain it.

Q. What did Thomas Edison do to improve the telegraph?

A. Quadruplexed it. So it could send four messages over one wire at the same time.

A lot of people 250 years ago wouldn’t wean their infants onto cow’s milk in the belief children so fed would grow up with bovine characteristics.

“Uncensored Abridgment” is a term common to the American book publishing trade. It means the sexy stuff has been left in, and the dull stuff has been cut out.

Traditional Japanese serve clam soup at Shinto wedding feasts.

The wealthy Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958.

And sent it there in a plain brown wrapper by registered first-class mail.

Q. How come there’s no male or female name for a beaver except beaver?

A. Because none but another beaver can tell the difference.