Trivia

Biographers say Winston Churchill always hummed a little tune just before he gave a speech. To relieve his tension. So he wouldn’t stutter. Some medical reports list him as a stutterer.

“Money is the seed of money, and the first million is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.” Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote that line at a time when a couple of people still didn’t know it.

Q. What’s “the Heavenly Ganges”?

A. That’s what skywatchers in India call our Milky Way.