Trivia

Cases involving cars reportedly take up more than half the time in U.S. courts.

Not until 1687 did clocks have two hands.

In the old tradition of China’s family meal, soup was the last course.

Q. The Panana Canal was dug along the route of an animal trail. What animals?

A. Donkeys. On the backs of same the Spanish explorers shipped gold across the isthmus. Their trails marked the shortest way.

Q. At what weather temperature is human fertility highest?

A. 64 degrees F. Novelty salesmen 100 years ago did a booming business near Niagara Falls, selling little pieces of gypsum labeled “Petrified Mist” from the falls.

Why whales as yet haven’t learned how to breathe underwater is still a puzzlement. They spend as much as 80 percent of their lives there.

Q. Was Isaac Newton really trying to figure out a way to make gold?

A. A minority of scholars still think so. He owned 138 books on alchemy, more than on any other subject.

“Buccula” is another way to say “double chin.”