Trivia

Q. Do wolves bark?

A. They go “woof.” One woof at a time. And snarl, squeal and howl. But they don’t bark. Theorists think domesticated dogs learned to bark to communicate with people. Wild wolves don’t want to communicate with people.

There are no personal checks in Japan.

During the Prohibition that outlawed sale, manufacture or transportation of alcoholic beverages, the U.S. Department of Agriculture routinely distributed pamphlets on how to make alcohol from apples, pumpkins, whatever.

You can’t stand out of sight behind a mallard duck. There is no out of sight. It sees in 360 degrees.

Much of the Helsinki Airport and a lot of other major construction projects in Finland were built with the hard labor of drunken drivers. Conviction gets three months there.

Algae grows on earthenware flower pots. It’s green. The gardener habitually handling same really does get a “green thumb.”

As for chicken, if the bones are dark, the bird was young.

One way to preserve an old book is to put it into the deep freeze for three days to kill much of the little wildlife therein.