Trivia

Q. What animal is born blind, deaf, hairless, toothless, no bigger than a shelled peanut, then turns into the fiercest beast for its size and weight known to man?

A. The shrew.

Bus drivers tend to have abnormally high blood pressure. For obvious reasons. And for one reason not so obvious: They can’t visit restrooms any time they’d like. That, too, raises the blood pressure, doctors say.

Among widows and widowers, the men are far more likely than the women to talk about their romantic histories. Our Love and War man says it’s a matter of early training. Many men, whose significant secrets have to do with their work, learn to tell those secrets only to women. Many women, whose significant secrets have to do with men, learn to tell those secrets to nobody.

Q. In the Scotland of 1858, an Edinburgh man died and was buried at Greyfriars Churchyard. I have an old clipping that says his dog came to be known as Greyfriars Bobby because it slept nightly at the graveside for a long time afterwards. How long?

A. Until the dog’s death 14 years later - in 1872.