Trivia

Could be you can identify the country with the world’s driest desert, but can you name the country with the coldest icefields and longest mountain chain? That, too, is Chile.

Q. When did we start using the term “cold turkey” to mean sudden quitting of drugs, liquor or tobacco?

A. The record suggests it first showed up in print on Oct. 13, 1921, in the Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C. How long it already had been in North American street talk is unknown. Countless addicts had undergone withdrawal in much earlier decades when addictive drugs were easily available over the counter.

Yes, Brazil has more airports than Russia.

When in Las Vegas, you can bet on any sports team except the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

Before polar bears went polar, they were brown bears. Ice came. To find something to eat, they ranged north, the wrong direction, but found something anyway, seals. And eventually the bigger of those bears, 1,600-pound males, turned into earth’s largest meat-eating land mammals. Still no match, as any vegetarian will tell you, for the foliage feeding elephant.