Trivia

Only three out of five women who get divorced in their early 40s marry again. They tend to inspire sympathy in others who think all those women would remarry if they could. Our Love and War man finds fault with this supposition. Some women, he says, think another marriage would be about as wise as suicide by snake. They believe they’ve learned something from experience.

Credit the Chinese, too, with the invention of the ship’s rudder.

“Cynophobia” is “fear of dogs.” It’s quite common. More so than most believe.

Q. What makes us think bees always know what time it is?

A. Some flowers open and close at the same times each day, and bees show up within a minute or so of those times.

Word coiners Gina and Carl Rogers offer “aquadextrous” - to mean “possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.”

Am now told that America’s Zinfandel grape, its precise European origin long a mystery, finally has been traced back to Croatia.

The late Ollie Small was devoted to golf despite his occasional forays into the traps. His ashes, it’s reported, are under the sand of the fourth-hole bunker at the Stanford University golf course.