Trivia

Wild wolves get the moose in only one out of every 25 attacks.

Claim is that more people die building bridges than crossing them.

Q. Where did we get the expression “caught flat-footed”?

A. From boxing. Sports writers popularized it.

If you think your grandmother is lonely, call her up and tell her what you learned today. I realize you’ll bore her if you tell her something she already knows, and it’s hard to find anything she doesn’t already know. But try. Tell her the Moray eel has four nostrils.

It’s a little known fact that the great bandmaster John Philip Sousa wrote five novels.

Q. Who was “Deadwood Dick”?

A. A legendary black cowboy. Real name, Nat Love. He worked Old West cattle drives and was a contemporary of Bat Masterson, Billy the Kid, Jesse James and Buffalo Bill. In 1876 he won a riding, roping and shooting contest in Deadwood, S.D., whence the nickname. Claim was Love knew every ranch brand in the West. He quit cowboying to be a railroad porter in 1890.

You can’t mail a canary, but you can mail a baby alligator.