Trivia

Fri., March 27, 1998

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Ideas about artificial insemination were first recorded in 1322 by Arabian writers.

Automakers once estimated - long ago, I gather - the price of the average new car equaled about 9 percent of the buyer’s take-home pay. At that rate, how much could you afford to pay for a new car?

No 27-year-old has ever seen a cigarette ad on TV in this country.

Various money changers were cheating immigrants on Ellis Island. That’s why those empowered gave the money-changing rights there to just one concessionaire. So the operation could be policed. It was the beginning of American Express.

That hotel man Ellsworth M. Statler - you’ve heard of Statler - advertised in 1900: “A room with a bath for a dollar and a half.”

The late Liberace made a thing out of playing Chopin’s “Minute Waltz” in 37 seconds.

You know those 2,000 glands that secrete wax in each of your ears? Medical research indicates they secrete more when you’re afraid.

Q. Name the only U.S. president who’d studied medicine?

A. William Henry Harrison. For a while, he did. But he quit to fight on the frontier.

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