Trivia

Indonesia has more volcanoes than Japan, which has more than the United States, which has more than Russia.

Q. Where’d we get the word “rebar” for the steel rods in concrete?

A. It’s short for “reinforcing bar.”

Researchers also contend 21 percent of the U.S. householders don’t make their beds daily, and 5 percent never do.

Item No. 488B in the “Short Men” file reads: Joseph Strauss stood 5 feet. He wrote a poem and designed a bridge. The poem was an ode to redwoods. Not too great. But the bridge was a dandy. San Francisco’s Golden Gate.

Women who tend to dress in a hurry are inclined to undress in a hurry, too. And women slow to dress are slow to undress. It’s known that most men have a preference in this matter. Our Love and War man is studying it.

When chameleons fight, the loser turns gray, the winner green.

Q. How come the musical scale of the Western world uses only about 90 of the 11,000 musical tones the ear can distinguish?

A. It’s based on the range of the human voice.

Sperm counters report that men are more fertile in the winter.