Trivia

Wasps get drunk on fermented fruits, and unsurprisingly, drunken wasps are more inclined to sting than sober wasps.

It’s now reported a newborn baby’s heart rate synchronizes not just with its mother’s but with its father’s, too. Yet not with the grandmother’s or the babysitter’s or anybody else’s.

Q. You said it takes 36 hours to cook that African-Asian dish called “Elephant’s Foot.” What goes into it?

A. An elephant’s foot.

Q. Did Abraham Lincoln sleep on bedsprings?

A. Only during the last 15 years of his life. They weren’t invented until 1850. That was when James Liddy of Watertown, N.Y., fell asleep on the seat of his surrey and woke up with the bright idea that springs also might do something for household beds.

Q. Has any king ever died in the United States?

A. One - Peter of Yugoslavia. After the Communists ran him out of Yugoslavia in 1947. He got a job as a public relations man, lost more money than he made, and at age 47 failed to survive a liver transplant. He was buried in Libertyville, Ill.