Trivia

Q. How many people at most can ride on a tandem bicycle?

A. Longest such bike seated 10. It was a 23-foot rig that weighed 305 pounds.

There are matrimonial experts who’ll tell you that 90 percent of the marriages in which the women have done the proposing have been successful.

Even back in the 1500s savvy wagon makers knew a vehicle with its wheels set on rails could carry much heavier loads. But not until the first successful steam engine came out in 1829 did that original knowledge turn into a significant railroad. “What to do” is easy. It’s “how to do it” that can be hard.

An elephant’s appendix is five feet long.

Wheat was cultivated earlier than corn and corn was cultivated earlier than rice.

New York City’s Bloomingdale Road wound up as Broadway.

Am told you have to cook duck longer than other common fowl, but I’m not sure why.

Don’t just eat the cereal; drink the milk on it, too. It catches added fortifying vitamins, says a nutritionist.

“What puzzles me,” writes a student of American aphorisms, “is how a fool and his money got together in the first place.”