Trivia

Average home in Maine belongs to the same owner for 19 years. In Arizona, for six years. So report the real estate writers.

Most of every tree you see is dead.

Students of the changing earth say the Amazon once drained westward, but that was before the Andes jumped up.

“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.” That, according to Henry A. Kissinger, ponderer.

Q. Wild West dime novelist Ned Buntline once was mob-lynched, then cut loose and revived. What was the crime?

A. The fatal shooting of the husband of his alleged mistress. His real name was Edward Zane Carroll Judson. By age 15, he’d earned a U.S. Navy midshipman’s commission. By 21, he’d published his own magazine. Later, he tracked down two murderers in Kentucky. Then, the lynching. Much later, he was sent to jail for a year in New York City for leading a deadly riot. He started several magazine ventures and wrote about 400 dime novels.

You don’t absolutely need a lot of math to find out that a human’s skin weighs twice as much as a human’s brain. But it’s easier with math.

Add redundancies: “Close proximity.”