Trivia

If you could capture the heat built up by your car’s brakes, you could warm your house with it.

Q. Where’s the highest car road in the United States?

A. To the top of 14,264-foot Mount Evans in the Rocky Mountains west of Denver.

Do you associate ketchup with New Orleans cooking? If not, why not? Over the years, more ketchup has been sold per capita there than anywhere else nationwide.

Q. What makes a hippo’s bite almost always fatal?

A. Size of the bite.

Innocents still debate whether heroin and cocaine addicts also drink much liquor. Going up, no. Coming down, yes.

Women who suffer morning sickness early in pregnancy are less likely to miscarry or to give birth prematurely. No whimsical theory, this. A study of 9,000 case histories appears to prove it conclusively.

The unhatched infant ostrich is another bird that chitchats pleasantly with its folks for several days before the eggshell breaks.

If you eat mustard, you’ll go crazy. So said Sylvester Graham. He was wrong about that. He was the Graham who invented the cracker of the same name. He got that one right.