Trivia

If a bloodhound could talk it might tell you no two people smell alike.

The sticky forked tongue of Parson’s chameleon is one and a half times its body length. If your tongue or mine were proportionately like that, we certainly wouldn’t need knives and forks. It would be more than 8 feet long.

Could be you know at least one “dinomaniac,” somebody who’s crazy about dancing.

Q. If the Detroit Zoo is not in Detroit, where is it?

A. Nearby Royal Oak.

One old California law stipulates you can cook in a bedroom there, but you can’t sleep in a kitchen.

Q. What was New Orleans’ Blue Book?

A. A directory of about 2,000 prostitutes working in the Storyville part of the city. Printed annually from 1901 to 1915. It carried ads.

It was long a common belief in southern Asia that a tiger’s ears are so sensitive they can hear the whistling of a man’s breath through his nose hairs. So tiger hunters of old, when tiger hunting was thought honorable, kept their nostrils barbered.