Trivia

If you don’t read a lot of books, who’s buying them? U.S. publishers sold $26 billion worth last year.

Claim is the most useful tool in the animal world is the bill of a bird.

Q. Where did that expression “Great Scott!” come from?

A. Goes all the way back to the Mexican War of 1847. Hero of the day was Gen. Winfield Scott.

Most butterflies flutter. Monarchs don’t. They flap their wings a couple of times, then glide on whatever breeze there be. That’s said to be why they can migrate such great distances.

To catch a big python, experts say, you’d do well to have one human handler for every 4 feet of snake.

Item 4911D in our Love and War man’s file is a quote from L. Frank Baum’s Wizard in “The Wizard of Oz”: “A heart is not judged by how much it loves but how much it is loved by others.”

Sturgeon have no teeth.

What identified your household as upper crust a century ago was the frosted glass pane in your front door.

It’s tough sailing on the Great Lakes in November, evidently. Half the shipwrecks there in this century occurred in November.