Trivia

Sat., March 7, 1998

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Vermont’s town of Richford once had a brothel astraddle the international boundary. If U.S. lawmen raided, visitors left by the back door into Canada. If Canadian lawmen raided, visitors ran out the front door into the United States.

Ferns don’t have seeds.

Q. Who was the youngest student ever admitted to Harvard?

A. A math whiz named William James Sidis, age 11. His father, a Harvard professor, tutored him from his babyhood.

Linguists link the Korean language to Finnish and Hungarian as well as to the variations of Asian tongues.

Q. What ocean area has the clearest water?

A. The Weddell Sea off the western Antarctica coast - with about 300 feet visibility.

John Quincy Adams thought enough of a predecessor to name one of his sons George Washington.

The ancient Babylonians sent their letters through the postal service in clay envelopes.

In Greenland is a community of part Upiak, part Afro-Americans, direct descents of Matthew Henson, famed first black man to reach the North Pole.

A “bight” is a loop in a rope.

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