Trivia

It’s a claim of science that no species of life on earth requires sexual training.

That China city of Shule, once called Kashgar, is said to be farther from an ocean than any other city on earth.

Q. What’s responsible for the eight-degree rise in the average nightly temperature in Arizona’s Phoenix since 1948?

A. More and more buildings, more and more paved streets.

Q. What’s the most sparsely populated country in the world?

A. Canada.

On the record is this dialogue supposedly between Yogi Berra and a female fan on one exceedingly warm day at the ball park. Fan: “You look mighty cool!” Yogi: “And you don’t look too hot, either.”

Girls alone are lonelier than boys alone, generally, and young women alone are lonelier than young men alone. But by the time women reach retirement age, they’ve learned to cope with it, evidently. Among Seasoned Citizens, lone women are far less depressed by loneliness than lone men. Or so conclude researchers at the University of Nebraska after a lengthy study of the matter.