Trivia

The U.S. state with the most Indians, Oklahoma, has no Indian reservation.

In a 1785 letter to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson wrote that a cup of chocolate was far superior to either tea or coffee, and he didn’t get a dime for the endorsement.

Q. How many unidentified bodies turn up every day in U.S. morgues?

A. Maybe 12 to 15.

Those who purport to know contend far more Westerners than Northeasterners in the United States can wiggle their ears.

The American psychiatrist W. Beran Wolfe said: “Freud found sex an outcast in the outhouse, and left it in the living room an honored guest.”

Music majors are told Beethoven didn’t bathe even once during the lengthy period it took him to compose his Ninth Symphony. Lonely man, Beethoven.

How many words of three letters or more can you make from letters in the word “winter”? Average is 20. Go for 31. That’s rated good.

Am advised the 1895 Australian tune “Waltzing Matilda” alluded not to a girl but to a knapsack known in the vernacular there as a “Matilda.”