Trivia

Q. Does a warthog have warts?

A. Four. On its head.

A wife who is the youngest child in her own family is less likely than her older sisters to have a successful marriage. So concluded sociologists Ernest W. Burgess and Leonard S. Cottrell after a study of 500 married couples. Theorists surmise the youngest daughter at home tends to be babied. Some go so far as to suggest she’d do best to marry a considerably older wealthy man. But they do not say where she can find one.

Before a beaver eats a lily pad - and it does a lot of that - it rolls it into a cigar shape and chomps away from end to end.

Q. What does “pto” mean in the margin of a book?

A. “Please turn over.” To indicate something noteworthy is on the other side. I thought it was pillowcase embroidery.

In some but not all European places during the Middle Ages it was required of midwives to extract and baptize any child whose mother died in childbirth.

Nothing new about decorative mirrors. They were particularly popular four centuries ago. To multiply the candlelights.