Trivia

Tue., March 18, 1997

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Matrimonial researchers recently asked numerous long-married women what they credited most for success in marriage, and their No. 1 reply was: “Friendship.”

Q. Although many pirates raided many ships, hardly any buried treasure has been found. Why not?

A. They rarely got much worth burying, those pirates. And when they did, they didn’t bury it but promptly split it up and turned it into cash, which mostly they invested in rum and women. Some squandered it, however.

At the time the great French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the game of roulette, he was really trying to create the impossible: a perpetual motion machine.

All the paper on which U.S. currency is printed is riddled with little invisible holes.

Whatever you do that takes 20 minutes every day will equal one year over 72 years of your life.

Q. Average home hot tub is close to 4 by 5 feet. How much hot water does it hold?

A. About 475 gallons.

Two out of five knife wounds, police say, are inflicted by acquaintances of the wounded.

Report is Michael Jordan makes $7,415-per-hour more than the new minimum wage.

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