Trivia

You also can weigh metric in a makeshift manner when you know one paper clip of the usual variety weighs one gram.

Q. Statistically, what’s the most dangerous device in the modern world, next to the automobile?

A. The stair step.

The perfect oval face is a rarity among women. Width at the cheekbones is two-thirds the vertical distance from hairline to chin. Width of the forehead is only slightly greater than width at the mouth level. So say the experts.

Q. What’s the difference between a “sonata” and a “cantata”?

A. Sonata, instrumental. Cantata, vocal.

An occasional ski thief lurks around the ski racks. So many a skier, breaking for lunch, puts one ski on one rack, the other on another. Nobody steals one ski.

On the number of attorneys in Washington, D.C., Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor once said, “There may be more lawyers here than people.”

Q. The brain is the most complex assemblage in the human body. What’s second?

A. Bone marrow, it’s now said.

The French once domesticated beavers. To eat.