Trivia

Fri., Oct. 24, 1997

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

The United States has fewer farmers in proportion to its population than just about any other country in the world. I say “just about” because that country known as Vatican City may beat it. Anyhow, what’s left of the U.S. farmers still leads the world in farm production.

Q. A TV show about English says women saved the language from extinction. How?

A. When William the Conqueror from France’s Normandy invaded England in 1066, he decreed French as the official language. His troops, however, married local girls, and they taught the children not French but English. A classic example of “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.” Traditionally, men have dominated the present, but women have dictated the future.

Did you look at eight houses before you bought your first home? That’s average. Another longstanding average on this topic is the actual sale price: 7.3 percent below list.

Albert Einstein never had anything dry-cleaned. Ever.

Claim is that nobody has ever invented a machine with as many moving parts as there are in one living cell.

Air controllers worldwide give their instructions in English.

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