Trivia

Your body engine is running on what you ate the day before yesterday, according to the medical texts.

Both presidents named Johnson died 10 years after their preceding presidents were assassinated.

I can only think of three words with three consecutive dotted letters:- Beijing, Fiji and hijinks. Can you come up with any others?

Elaborate toys weren’t so common two centuries ago, not even in France, but dolls were popular, and after the French Revolution, the winners put out a most remarkable package of same - highly dressed aristocratic figures with a finely crafted little guillotine to behead them.

A hummingbird just sitting there breathes 250 times a minute.

“Daughters we love for what they are, sons for what they promise to be.” Goethe wrote that. Along with some other stuff.

Andronicus Livius, a Roman actor of the third century B.C., didn’t have much of a speaking voice, evidently. He lost it entirely during a performance, improvised silently, and the audience liked him better that way. It was he who originated pantomime.