Trivia

Weather veterans say you can usually predict the day’s highest temperature by adding 18 degrees to the temperature at 6 a.m.

Listed atop the roster of world-class chocolate eaters are the people of The Netherlands.

Sea scientists say it’s no unusual trick for a humpback whale to down 5,000 fish for lunch.

In Louisiana’s Lake Charles, local law mandates a resident get rid of any front yard rain puddle within 12 hours of the rain that made it.

Herring chirp.

Q. Can death-row prisoners, when they finish their last meal, ask for seconds?

A. Ask maybe. But receive, no. Most authorities at the scenes regard it as frivolous delay, according to reporters who cover executions.

A sheep rubbed up against a tree. A sheepwatcher noted how the rubbing twisted the wool into strands. “I get it!” cried the watcher, or similar syllables. And the spinning of yarn was conceived.