Trivia

A sports statistician says a baseball on average survives in the major leagues for only seven pitches.

The sun makes an enormous noise but far too low for the human ear to hear.

Q. Where did class rings get started?

A. West Point.

It’s a wharf only if it runs parallel to the shoreline.

“Crack” is so named because it crackles when smoked. “Heroin” was once the brand name of morphine. Marijuana is Spanish for “Mary Jane.”

London’s pigeons have been seen of late atop rolling subway cars. Riding both ways. In and out of the city. Remarkable, what? Commuting pigeons.

Q. You see the name “Cutler” on mail chutes in office buildings. Who’s Cutler?

A. The inventor of those chutes. James Goold (that’s how he spelled it) Cutler took out a patent on another way to use gravity. First such chute was installed in Rochester, N.Y., in 1883.

Two out of three American geologists at last report were still looking for oil.