Trivia

A major seller of backyard barbecue grills has a call-in line for customers who need answers. The No. 1 query - it echoes all the way back to prehistoric man who unfortunately had no phone support - is: “How do I light a fire?”

Recent research indicates most of the Amish, whose families long worked farms, now run small furniture stores or construction businesses.

A shrimp’s heart is in its head.

Also now confirmed is the cosmetologist’s report that women in nudist colonies use more makeup than women in general.

No, Mexico’s mountains are higher than Colorado’s, by far.

The burning tip of a cigarette, it’s said, gets up to 1,700 degrees F.

A year’s count of tourists in Spain is greater than the country’s resident population.

It’s said to be true among dogs, too, that the male is more difficult to housebreak.

Q. Why do the Venezuelan Indians smoke their cigars backwards. with the lighted ends in their mouths?

A. So they don’t waste the smoke, they say.