Trivia

Q. What’s the most widespread human affliction, not counting the common cold?

A. Dental cavities.

Another time to give thanks: If you see the lightning, it missed you.

Q. Didn’t Simon Bolivar create a United States of South America?

A. Tried to. His “Gran Colombia” lasted eight years but was dismembered finally into Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador.

Ice worms disintegrate when the temperature rises above 68 degrees.

At the Omaha Royals’ baseball stadium on May 26, 1988, the club manager got into a lively discussion with game officials over a call at home plate. The organist swiftly keyed into the theme song of the Mickey Mouse Club television show. The umpire ejected the organist.

Q. Why does lightning start so many more fires in the Western states than in the Eastern states?

A. In the East, it comes with rain, usually. Less often so, in the West.

Q. What animal has the longest horns?

A. The sable of Africa. They grow 5 feet, arcing toward the rear.

Deep in the tin mine at Camborne in England’s Cornwall, the water that oozes from the rock walls is so hot the miners can make instant tea with it. And do.