Trivia

Those who know all about birds say a so-called silly goose actually is considerably smarter than a so-called wise old owl.

Q. In football, more players are injured in zone defense than in man-to-man. Why?

A. Opposing players in the same direction. In zone, they often move in collision directions.

Snails like oranges.

Q. What makes a duck waddle?

A. Its legs are set behind its center of gravity. Likewise a pelican’s and penguin’s. A woman learns all about it when she puts on high heels, when she’s expecting, and when she picks up her toddler. An anatomy expert says a woman spends much of her life adjusting to changes in the relationship between her legs and her center of gravity.

Writer G.K. Chesterton said, “People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.”

Burglaries go up come winter.

You knew “red tape” first alluded to ribbon-wrapped paperwork of English bureaucracy. But were you aware Charles Dickens coined the term?

Confucius isn’t a Chinese name, but K’ung Fu-tse is.

Any pirate could tell you the “main” in “Spanish Main” alludes to South America’s “mainland.”