Trivia

Nine heartbeats a minute that’s the typical pulse of a gray whale.

The first football team to nickname itself the “Tigers” - Princeton’s - did so because it had chosen to outfit itself with orangeand-black striped socks.

Q. Which is true, that mental patients rarely die of cancer or that they rarely get headaches?

A. Both are true.

Jurors in Medieval England were not fed until they reached a decision.

Australia has more kangaroos now than when the first Europeans arrived there.

Pure chocolate is too bitter to eat.

In 1937 Dr. Burkhart Waldecker, a German explorer, found a small spring on a hillside in Africa’s Burundi. It proved to be a true source of the Nile River.

Q. What fur-bearing animals are native to the Antarctic?

A. Aren’t any.

Some sea captains in the 1500s took precautionary pigs aboard ship in the belief the animals, if thrown overboard, instinctively would swim toward the nearest shore. But the sorry captains learned when lost that thrashing pigs in deep water frantically slash their own necks with their front hooves and bleed to death if not promptly hauled out.