Trivia

A gorilla in the wild rarely drinks water.

Professional singers know why almost all male soloists elect to be accompanied by male pianists. In any performance, a woman, and especially a particularly attractive woman, tends to draw attention away from the man.

“Chrissie” is the short and sweet Australian for Christmas.

Q. When the English nobles journeyed on their crusades to the Middle East in the late 12th century, who looked after their interests while they were gone?

A. Attorneys, mostly. History records it as an era of extraordinary prosperity for the bar.

Not every student of literature knows that Henry David Thoreau invented one of the earliest American pencils.

“Every imported cheese can be made as well or better in the United States.” Such is the claim of U.S. cheesemakers. If you can you refute this, please do so.

“A woman has the ability to keep certain things secret … much better than a man, if she really wants to.” So said that student of the mind, Theodor Reik. His explainers say women traditionally have relied for survival more than men on people around them. So women in self-defense learn more quickly what can and can’t be told, even to the closest company.