Trivia

Translate any document from English into Spanish or French or German or Russian, and the translation, if true to the original, will come out about 25 percent longer. English is much more concise. So says a professional linguist.

It was Sitting Bull who first called a locomotive an iron horse.

Put everything alive on earth into a bucket - some bucket - and more than half the contents will be water.

If you multiply 15,873 by any single number, then multiply that by 7, all the answer’s numerals will be the first single number you multiplied it with. Go on, check it.

In early football, the ball carrier, to keep from getting killed when tackled, was supposed to yell, “Down!” That’s why those four plays are called “downs.”

Young alligators moo like calves.

When you get depressed, how long do you stay in that condition? Psychiatrists say the emotional lows of most normal people total only about 10 percent of the mood cycle.

Q. Where do zookeepers get the ants to feed to the anteaters?

A. No ants. Just milk, eggs and meat, usually.