Trivia

Q. Hasn’t Red Square in Moscow been renamed since the Communists were ousted?

A. No, that huge plaza in front of the Kremlin was called Red Square at least 100 years before the word “communism” was coined.

The right tusk of the elephant is almost invariably larger than the left.

“It is not lack of love but lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages,” wrote that student of Love and War, Friedrich Nietzsche.

Q. I’ve repeatedly read champagne gets you high more quickly than wine without bubbles. Why?

A. 1. Physically, carbon dioxide in champagne speeds the alcohol into the blood. 2. Psychologically, the champagne drinker is already in the mood to celebrate. Or so say the experts.

Rural householders in ancient Greece kept snakes indoors and out to control rats and mice much the way farmers keep cats today.

Women normally have better hearing than men. At every age.

Football’s first tackling dummy was a rolled-up gym mat, set forth by Amos Alonzo Stagg at Yale in 1889.

The sage Alvin Toffler noted: “Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.”

Client writes: “If you just want to take a little nap, count lambs.”