Baboons, cheese and more

•Those who study such things say that baboons can only throw underhanded, never overhand.

•It was British playwright Oscar Wilde who made the following sage observation: “Only the shallow know themselves.”

•Baseball is the national pastime, and even those you might not immediately think of as sports fans can get caught up in the excitement. Take composers, for instance — they’re generally thought of as a rather stuffy lot, right? Well famed composer John Philip Sousa was an avid fan. In fact, at the request of Judge Kenesaw Mountain, major-league baseball’s first high commissioner, Sousa composed the march “The National Game” in 1925.

•Are you a turophile? I certainly am! “Turophile” is just a fancy way of saying “cheese-lover.”