Trivia

In Milwaukee is a sausage plant that lets its workers take daily sausage breaks. They reportedly eat six tons a year. The firm does not proclaim: “Our employees know what goes into our sausage, and they eat it.” Too negative.

Q. Why would a rich man about to skip out the country carry only $10,000 in currency?

A. Federal law prohibits taking more cash without notification to authorities.

One of Jupiter’s moons, Io, is in a tidal tug between two other moons, Europa and Ganymede. Io’s ground surface, therefore, billows, heaving up and down 328 feet every 36 hours. Don’t build there.

Q. How much land does the average 18-hole golf course cover?

A. About 150 acres.

Tusks grow in layers. Cross cuts show the rings.

Fish can sunburn.

Sexology scholars long have linked apprehension to the excitement of physical romance. It’s one thing to make domestic love in the master bedroom, and quite another to cavort romantically in the unlocked supply room at work. But among the adventurous, says one post-graduate in kink, are certain souls who intentionally seek out dangerous venues to relish “the fear of being caught.” Maybe so.