Trivia

Most common crimes committed by big-city police officers are said to be: 1. Accepting money from business people. 2. Assaults on citizens. And 3. Shakedowns of individuals accused of sexual misdeeds. Or so university studies indicate. Drinking on duty is a departmental violation, not a crime.

It’s even money your socks came from North Carolina. Half the socks nationwide do.

Claim was alcoholics generally don’t have much hair on their chests. A seasoned physician explains: “Chronic alcoholism is a common cause of cirrhosis of the liver. A cirrhotic liver does not fully metabolize feminizing estrogenic hormones produced in small amounts by males. Their accumulation in the body leads to some degree of demasculinization, including loss of chest hair.”

Q. What was the Inca wedding ceremony like?

A. The bride and groom took off their sandals and handed same to each other. If the historians have this right, that was all there was to it.

Credit Nebraska with more kinds of grass than any other state.

That world-famous British nurse Florence Nightingale in her later years liked to work at her desk with a housecat draped around her neck.