Trivia

Q. What’s the highest capital city in Europe?

A. Spain’s Madrid at an altitude of 2,150 feet. Note: All of Spain has an average altitude of more than 2,000 feet. That makes it a bit balmier than people elsewhere guess.

An elephant’s eyelashes are 4 inches long.

Q. I know the most popular name for newborn girls in Kansas last year was “Kaitlyn,” but what was the most popular name there then for newborn boys?

A. Jacob.

Appearing here and there in the texts of higher education: “First Law of Socio-Genetics: Celibacy is not hereditary.”

Q. I’ve read newborn babies are “legally blind.” What’s that mean?

A. Vision no better than 20/500.

Most of the milk sold in France, home of Louis Pasteur, isn’t pasteurized.

Some construction men swab baby oil on their aluminum hard hats. When flies get close enough to their faces to be bothersome, they say, said flies wind up stuck to the hard hats.