Trivia

Q. What made the Model T Ford different from all other cars that preceded it?

A. Interchangeable parts.

President Woodrow Wilson typed his own letters.

Not just hundreds but thousands of one-finger piano tunes were written in the 1800s, but only one of those compositions survived in the music markets - “Chopsticks,” written in 1871 by a 16-year-old girl named Euphemia Allen.

Thomas Jarman, the lawyer once reputed to have been the greatest legal expert on the last will and testament, died without leaving a will. Never heard of him? All right, but you’ve heard of this famous lawyer. Abraham Lincoln left no will, either.

Q. What did you say were the hardest courses you took in school?

A. Algebra I and Algebra I.

Many a keeper of pet birds would turn them loose to fly inside the house were it not for their droppings. Bertha Dlugi of Milwaukee took pity on both the keepers and the birds. In 1959 she patented a small triangle of fabric which could serve, if properly taped in place, as a bird diaper.

Cracker barrel father: “All I want my kids to do is learn how to catch the knives by the handles.”