Trivia

It has been claimed the heads of all great ballerinas are much smaller than average.

Q. Is that club called the Irish shillelagh supposed to be made of some particular kind of wood?

A. Can only report Ireland’s town of Shillelagh is renowned for its oak trees.

Q. I’ve read the male chameleon won’t put up with other lizards on his turf. What does he do to drive off other males?

A. Pushups.

Students of human behavior say it’s no trick to be tolerant of somebody you don’t like. What’s tough is to be tolerant of somebody who doesn’t like you. Few people can handle it, they say.

‘Twas I who said I saw four eyes on the $1 bill - two on the President’s face, one on the top of the pyramid, and one on the head of the eagle. It was somebody else who claimed to see six: The afore-mentioned plus two on “the infinitesimally small owl” perched on the upper left hand corner of the “1” on the upper right hand corner of the President’s side of the bill. Owl? That’s no owl. Is it?

Doctors didn’t get around to prescribing aspirin routinely until about half a century after Karl Gerhardt discovered it in 1853.