Trivia

Could be that Emile Berliner did as much as any other to change the world of music, but his name remains generally unknown. Too bad. He invented the microphone.

In Japan, about 25,000 law graduates take the bar exams every year, and only about 700 pass. That’s how the Japanese keep a lid on their national lawyer count.

Saloons of yesteryear offered free lunches, and just about all the free lunches were overly salted.

“A mediocre executive, male or female, with a good secretary, male or female, is far more valuable to a company than a good executive with a mediocre secretary.” So contends one seasoned job finder.

No other pigment is as abundant as chlorophyll.

Jaws of the tiger beetle chew sideways, not up and down.

All volcanoes spew sulfur.

Surveys indicate that “good disposition” ranks No. 1 among those qualities needed for happy marriage. Unhappiest spouses, it’s shown, are touchy, oversensitive sorts given to chronic complaining. But our Love and War man asks, “What does marriage have to do with it? Aren’t the complainers the unhappiest unmarried people, too?” Believe so.