Trivia

If starting your own business is what you’d like to do, hear this: Studies at Tulane University suggest the average entrepreneur fails 3.8 times before making it work.

If you had fur on the soles of your feet, you, too, could walk on ice without slipping, says a polar bear expert.

You knew “Goodbye” dates back to “God be with you.” But you can see it better in the earlier spelling: “Godbwye.”

No salamander has claws.

Geographers say Romania’s terrain is perfect - 31 percent mountains, 36 percent plateaus, 33 percent lowlands.

Police say the length of the human footprint is roughly 15 percent of the height of the footprinter.

Every normal young man reveres two illusions: one, he’s a good driver, and two, he’s a good lover. So said that sage, the late Erich Fromm. Traffic accident reports support Fromm’s notion in the driver part. But aside from the birthrate, nothing backs him up in the lover matter.

The milk snake won’t drink milk.

Not often does a Frenchman butter his bread. Like almost never.