Trivia

According to the canine experts, two characteristics distinguish that breed of working dog known as the Hungarian puli. It’s the hairiest and it’s the smartest.

When you trace the origin of the word “Caribbean,” you get to the origin of the word “cannibal.”

Italian proverb: “Quick climbers suffer sudden falls.”

Q. What’s “white pox”?

A. A newly discovered disease killing coral reefs off the Florida Keys. It already has destroyed more than half the elkhorn coral in some areas, correspondents say.

Sardonic farmers along the Mississippi River complain it’s too thick to drink and too thin to plow.

Q. What’s the oldest known offensive weapon?

A. A broken wooden spear estimated to have been shaped earlier than 200,000 B.C., outside the range of radiocarbon dating. It was found in April 1911 at Clactonon-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom.

Q. Can a kangaroo outrun a horse?

A. On a short run only.

Q. Numerous Confederates fled to Brazil when the South lost the Civil War. How many of their descendants live there now?

A. An estimated 100,000. They’re called Confederados.

The American cuckoo doesn’t cuckoo. It clucks.