Trivia

A horse focuses its eye by changing the angle of its head, not by changing the shape of the eye lens.

A fashionable restaurant in France called La Tour d’Argent suddenly became famous in the late 1500s simply by offering one thing with meals other restaurants didn’t - forks.

Pope Innocent VIII in 1484 ordained that all the cats of every witch burned at the stake were to be burned with her.

Q. What was the shortest war in U.S. history?

A. Spanish-American - five months from April to August of 1898.

George Lee, an American student of Chinese cultures, reports: “According to the “Yi Ching” or “Book of Changes,” the even numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, 0 are “yin” - quiet, dark, passive, female. The odd numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 are “yang” - loud, bright, active, male. Of these, the strongest is 9. This is the favorite number of many Chinese.”

Eiffel Tower constructions costs were recovered by sightseers’ fees within a year.

Chief Justice Earl Warren said, “Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.”