Trivia

In the extraction of money from banks, the statistics suggest embezzlers get twice as much as robbers.

Your education is what you’ve learned. Your culture is what you’ve got left after you’ve forgotten what you’ve learned. Or so say the sages.

What bird has blubber? Spring this query on your family scholar. Said savant no doubt will say the Emperor penguin. It better have same, or some sort of insulation. Its body tries to hold a temperature of more than 100 degrees.

The late Nathan Pritikin, onetime diet authority who thought about food all the time, said fat calories made cheese the most dangerous food he could think of.

Little wonder nobody remembers Lady Macbeth’s first name. It was “Gruoch.”

Q. Who started the first advertising agency?

A. A Philadelphian named Volney B. Palmer. He sold newspaper space to out-of-town advertisers, charging the papers 25 percent of their space rates plus postage and stationery costs. In 1841, this. Same year a British anatomist named Richard Owen coined the word “dinosaur.” And a Scottish surgeon named James Baird discovered that phenomenon called “hypnosis.”