Trivia

Q. How long did it take after the Wright brothers’ flight for women to pilot airplanes?

A. Five years.

Standard length of a walking cane is 35-1/2 inches.

Many a woman who thinks she’d like to get rid of her early husband really wants to get rid of her early self. Such is the contention of one matrimonial expert. What she seeks, says this savant, is a partner who doesn’t know her so well. Presumably, says our Love and War man, this is a reversible theory, applying also to the husband who wants rid of his early wife.

Odds are you’ve never heard the world’s loudest animal. The distinction belongs to the blue whale. Sonar science indicates its underwater utterings equal the sound of a Navy cruiser at normal speed.

Cattle herders on the island of Madeira keep their cows in thatched sheds mostly. Those they let outdoors are held on leashes. Steep land. Much too dangerous for loose livestock.

Eighty-seven percent of professional boxers suffer some sort of brain damage. That, according to the California Medical Association.

Q. When was the first vasectomy performed?

A. For medical reasons? In 1893.

No squirrel ever remembers where any particular nut is buried.