Trivia

Ancient Greeks pressed their clothes with an iron shaped like a rolling pin.

Q. What explains that tuxedo plumage of the penguin?

A. Natural camouflage. The swimming penguin looks like the dark sea from above, like the light sky from below.

Q. You quoted a romance authority as saying men fall in love with women more quickly than women fall in love with men. Prove it. Which are more likely to say they’re in love the first time they go out - men or women?

A. Our Love and War man has the university research on that, too. One out of every four men believes he’s in love on the first date. But only one out of every six-plus women thinks she’s in love even by the fourth date.

Rarely do you hear anything about boat theft, but it goes on, and most seriously. Thieves steal 20,000 vessels a year nationwide. A particular group of watercraft is categorized as “substantial ships.” One of these vanishes every week, average, whether to distant port or to the bottom of the sea nobody knows.

The sage Michel de Saint-Pierre asked, “An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?”