L.M. Boyd Trivia

• Q. What sort of living thing in all the animal kingdom has the largest brain in proportion to its size?

A. The ant.

‘s the difference in an earthquake between the “focus” and the “epicenter”?

A. Focus, underground site. Epicenter, surface spot most greatly shaken.

• The Alaska Highway crosses 129 rivers.

• An engineering firm in France now lets employees bring their dogs and cats to work, and turn same loose to roam the premises. Other French companies are said to be considering it. Managers say is it reduces stress, but they don’t say whose.

• Client says our Love and War man made up the Florentine Kiss. Not so. History credits Napoleon for that intimate bit. He supposedly squeezed his partner’s earlobes as his lips touched hers, and the chroniclers called it the Florentine kiss. Why this was so sensational has not yet been revealed. Research goes on.

• Half the people who choke on food choke on the first bite of the meal.

• Ask an elderly bachelor and spinster which were the happiest years of their lives, and they’ll usually name years before age 25. Put the same query to an elderly husband and wife, and they’ll probably say some years between ages 25 and 45. Surveytakers insist they have confirmed this, repeatedly.