Trivia

Elephants adopt orphans.

Your brain waves have much to do with your sex appeal. If said waves somehow match those of a prospective partner, that’s it; the attraction is immediate. Or so believe some specialists who work with that instrument called the encephalograph. What they’re trying to do now is see if they can match up compatible lovers just by looking at their encephalographic readings.

It’s a curiosity, is it not, that little children learn the benefits of telling lies far earlier than they learn the benefits of telling the truth?

On the heads of most Japanese, hair whorls clockwise. On most Europeans, counterclockwise.

Q. Where’d we get the expression “to monkey with. …”?

A. From English inventor Charles Moncky’s “adjustable spanner,” later to become known through a misspelling of his name as the “monkey wrench.”

On West 99th Street near Riverside Drive in New York City once thrived the Paramount Apartment House. Viewers of classic movies certainly recognize the namesake. Paramount Pictures was named after it.