Trivia

Tue., Oct. 7, 1997

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Q. Is it true the Mongols put their children on horses as soon as their toddlers could walk?

A. Not quite. They put them on goats. To train them for horses. Or so say the archives examiners.

Quebec’s Montreal outlaws the use of music to advertise a business.

Between 1873 and 1880, when trauma patients lost a lot of blood, some physicians gave them intravenous milk transfusions, and a few, a very few, survived.

Q. Venus is almost perfectly round. Earth isn’t. It bulges at the equator by about 26 miles. What makes this difference?

A. Speed of the spin. Earth fully rotates in 24 earth hours, Venus in 243 earth days.

A woman inherits the characteristics of her breasts as much from her father as from her mother. A man inherits the characteristics of his beard as much from his mother as from his father. Most curious.

Environmentalists contend that the worst polluters in the developing countries couldn’t operate without loans from the World Bank. They therefore blame that august institution for much of the earth’s ongoing defacement.

Eagles never hunt in the rain.

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