Trivia

Sixty-nine percent of the car accidents happen within 25 miles of home.

Another way to wipe your eyeglasses free of streaks is put a drop of vodka on each lens.

Will bet you a small unspecified sum you’ve never heard of the world’s more numerous wild bird - the red-billed quelea. It’s a seed-eater that flocks by the millions over Africa.

Q. In the Israeli military, what’s a “Popeye”?

A. An air-to-ground missile. Once in what’s now much of Minnesota, North Dakota, Manitoba and Ontario was the glacial-runoff Lake Agassiz, larger in its time than all of today’s Great Lakes combined.

A cloud layer surrounds Venus, and just under it, 31 miles above the surface, the wind blows constantly at 109 mph.

Goethe said, “The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.”

Q. Didn’t the British once levy taxes on the number of household doors?

A. Romans did that. The British taxed on the number of windows.