Trivia

Thu., Nov. 6, 1997

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Historically, local courts in the United States have fined prostitutes, but not jailed them overlong. A financial matter. If not turned loose, they couldn’t earn enough to pay their fines.

On an analog watch, the minute hand catches up to pass the hour hand every 65 minutes 27.27168 seconds - that’s 22 times a day.

Builders of the great steamship United States ordered everything aboard to be fireproof. But gave in on two items. The ship’s chef wouldn’t put up with anything but wood for a butcher block. And Steinway wouldn’t make aluminum pianos for the salons.

Requested Rerun: On Christmas Day of 1939, Great Britain’s King George VI broadcast a brief bit written by one Miss M. L. Haskins. It went: “I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, ‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown,’ and he replied, ‘Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”’ No other words so greatly inspired the devout of Britain to survive World War II.

Largest herb on earth is the banana.

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