Trivia

Everybody knows Mount Everest in the Himalayas is the world’s highest. Except those who say Mount Chimborazo in the Andes is higher when measured from the center of the earth. Because of the equatorial bulge.

Q. Where’d Spam come from?

A. Austin, Minn. In 1937, George A. Hormel & Co. brought out the pressed pork-shoulder-and-ham mix. Widespread troop movements of World War II pushed it into the world’s largest selling canned meat.

Consider those girls between ages 10 and 14 in Nepal - 13.86 percent of them are married.