Trivia

Doctors near college campuses say acne increases notably among students during final exams.

Word is that rising seas around Cape Cod are chewing off about three feet of land a year.

The most nutritious food in the world, it’s said, is blood.

Q. Where’s the world’s biggest temperate rain forest?

A. Near the coast of Canada’s British Columbia. Ellerslie.

Thousands of people in the Cathar sect of Southern France believed everything on earth was created by the devil. In 1208 the Roman Catholic pope proclaimed death to the heretics. It took his crusaders 26 years to burn all the Cathars to death in huge bonfires.

Jaguars sleep in trees.

Manitoba’s Alonsa has a cute bit of local legislation on its books. No farm couple can go to a livestock auction within four hours after they’ve eaten garlic.

Turned on their sides, a capital “B” has two humps, a capital “D” has one - another way to remember the difference between “bactrian” and “dromedary” camels.

Edgar Allan Poe looked bad when he submitted his manuscript of “The Raven” to Graham’s Magazine. So bad the editorial staffers took up a collection of $15 for him before they rejected the poem.