Trivia

Italy is always categorized as Catholic, is it not? It has the lowest birthrate in Europe. Next to Vatican City.

Those who know their wildlife say the worst thing you can do to a killer whale is leave it alone. It needs company. It needs dolphins or people or other orcas, whichever, but some kind of social attachment.

Q. What soldier was both killed and buried at Arlington Cemetery?

A. Lt. Thomas Selfridge. He died on the Arlington grounds in a test flight of Orville Wright’s airplane.

When lying at rest, a rabbit is “set,” a hare is “formed,” and a buck deer is “lodged.”

The Aztecs figured out an interesting system to cut their school dropout rate. No man could marry until he’d graduated. Even then, he had to get permission from his former schoolmaster.

Politicians didn’t build that reputation overnight. All the way back in 600 B.C., Aesop said, “We hang the petty thieves but appoint the great ones to public office.”

In the Tenere Desert of Africa’s Niger Republic is an oasis. Once thereby stood a lone tree. With no other trees within 30 miles. Historical footnotes show that in February 1960 a truck driver ran into it.