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The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Trivia

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Any rabbit tracker will tell you it’s the hind feet that make the front tracks.

Client asks, “Who actually invented the modern pizza?” Such has been credited to a Neapolitan named Raffaele Esposito in 1889.

Centuries ago in the Dutch Province of Friesland, the powers in charge proportioned the tax to the length of the payer’s names. Twenty-letter names were taxed heavily, three-letter names lightly. To this day, most people in Friesland have short names.

You know those mosquitoes north of the Arctic Circle? They’re born from eggs laced with a natural antifreeze. Tropical mosquito eggs don’t have it.

An ancient allegory says Truth and Falsehood bathed together in sparkling waters, and when they came ashore, Falsehood donned Truth’s clothing and ran ahead, leaving Truth the choice: Either put on Falsehood’s clothing or no clothing at all. Truth chose none. Whence the expression: “the naked truth.”

Q. Don’t half of our 50 states have saltwater coastlines?

A. Nearly - 24.

Centipedes eat meat - insects. Millipedes eat vegetables - leaves.