Trivia

Only if you eat 15 pounds of hay and 9 pounds of grain daily do you eat like a horse.

Q. Among spiders, which spins the webs the male or the female?

A. Both. But she’s better at it.

Q. What’s the smallest town in America?

A. At last report, North Dakota’s Hove Mobile Park City, population two.

Taxidermists many generations ago stitched the heads of little monkeys to the bodies of big fish and sold them as “genuine preserved mermaids.”

Q. A condemned man cannot legally be hanged again if the rope breaks, right?

A. Not right. He supposedly cannot legally be tried more than once for the same crime, but he certainly can be hanged, shocked, injected as many times as it takes to do him in.

An Aztec-Mayan name for the sun was “Kih.” A Chinese name for the sun was “Zhih.” Is that close enough to suggest anything? Maybe not. Writing of both reads from right to left and top to bottom.

Q. Who invented stop signs?

A. William Eno. Credit him, too, with one-way streets and pedestrian safety islands. A problem solver was Mr. Eno. And the problem in New York City in his era - 1858 - was traffic-jammed buggies.

Q. How long does a person stay on the same job in the United States, typically?

A. Average 4.2 years.

The Ford Motor Co. in the early 1970s painted some cars a color formally listed in the firm’s brochures as “Freudian Gilt.”

Knights of old had a word for a shield that protected the entire body. They named it a “pavis.”