Trivia

First telephone operators were boys who stood while they worked. Took the phone company several years to bring in chairs.

Women are more inclined than men to smile for the camera. If you don’t believe it, look through your old school yearbook.

Ozark vernacular: “Bad year. Took three hogs to make a shadow.”

That renowned cosmetics queen Elizabeth Arden was born Florence Nightingale Graham. To open her first salon, she rented a little shop where the name Elizabeth already was on the door. She was reading Tennyson’s “Enoch Arden” at the time. To save money, she just had “Arden” added to that sign.

If the fabric is real camel’s hair, it came from a two-humped camel.

Q. When you fall in love, your brain produces a chemical that picks up your pulse rate, increases your energy level, and gives you a happy dreamy feeling. What’s it called?

A. Phenylethylamine. Some candy purveyors, who claim it’s in chocolate, like to call it the perfect unabused substance.

You get a pound of salt for every four gallons of seawater, give or take depending on which sea.