Trivia

Far more baby boys than baby girls get ear infections.

Several inventors applied to the U.S. Patent Office for patents on various versions of heavier-than air aircraft. Before the Wright brothers’ flight, this. But the patent officials refused to grant those patents on the grounds that any such flight was impossible.

Q. What’s the quotation you said ought to be on all shoe store walls?

A. Abraham Lincoln’s comment: “When my feet hurt, I can’t think.”

Q. Statisticians say the more money you have, the more likely you’ll be injured in a home accident. How do you account for it?

A. The more money you have, the more likely you’ll go to a medical facility for treatment, thus getting your case into the records.

Claim is that 90 percent of all the extinct species have been birds.

In the vernacular of early New England, “to scoon” was “to skim.” In 1713, Andrew Robinson’s first ship of its kind, notable for the manner in which it skimmed along the water, therefore was called a “schooner.”

Q. Are there any truly wild horses in the world?

A. Only the Przewaksi horses of Mongolia. All others come down from horses once domesticated.