Trivia

Eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain.

Why many more girls than boys are born to anesthesiologists is not yet known.

Q. What was the best thing the Native Americans got from the early European settlers?

A. The iron kettle, some say.

The Chinese didn’t start out with tea, rice and soybeans. Imports, all.

Calvin Coolidge routinely rode an electric bucking horse he kept in the White House basement.

On a first date, researchers say, neither a woman nor a man tends to eat much.

President John Adams lost all his teeth, even as did President George Washington. But Adams rejected false substitutes. History records his late-life conversation became hard to understand.

Odds are the precious rubies and sapphires you see in the jeweler’s window have been heat treated to fix their clarity and color. No recent artificial trick, this. Pliny the Elder wrote of it in ancient Rome. Records noted it a dozen centuries ago in what’s now Sri Lanka. Controlled heat, experts say, brings out the best in such stones.

Rabbits tunnel. Hares don’t.