Trivia

Our language man says “traduce” is a word you rarely hear except in election years. It means to “expose to shame or blame with a falsehood or misrepresentation.”

If you could kayak 20 miles a day, it would take you about three months to paddle all the way around the shoreline of Lake Superior.

Q. What kind of germs, specifically, cause communicable diseases?

A. Bacteria, protozoa, viruses, rickettsiae, parasitic worms and fungi. So research reveals.

Ancient histories of the Chinese indicate they found it so easy to carry their paper currency - the world’s first - that they called it “flying money.”

The same man who came up with condensed milk, Gail Borden, has been credited with inventing the first Lazy Susan.

Odds are fifty-fifty an NFL running back will injure a knee.

Indiana’s Wabash is listed as the first city to have electricity.

Q. If the Incas had no money, what do they trade with?

A. Cloth.

It was the witty Tom Wilson who said, “The waist is a terrible thing to mind.”