Trivia

Hungarian is one of those few languages in which the word for mother “anya” does not begin with “m.”

A zooman says the last 18 inches of a rattlesnake’s strike is guided not by what it sees but by the heat it senses. If you try to feed it a cold mouse, he says, it will go for your warm hand.

Behaviorists are still trying to figure out why toddling boys with toy blocks tend to build high towers while little girls of the same age are more likely to build long, low walls.

Seasoned berry pickers say, “Use shallow baskets, not deep buckets.”