Trivia

U.S. life expectancy has doubled in the past 100 years.

It has been claimed mankind is where it’s at because of the creation of money, the invention of the wheel, the development of the written word, and the control of fire. That’s grand. It’s also personal. To those four basics you and I can credit our cash, our car, our schooling, our cookery, and our comfortable quarters. Pretty significant.

In a classroom of 35 students, odds are at least one is colorblind.

Word collector Gina Rogers offers this curious set of syllables - “lactomangulation” - as “the act of ripping up the ‘open’ corner of a milk container so badly you have to try the other side.”

Q. Do all big cats roar?

A. All but the jaguar, say the wildlifers. The cougar screams. I’ve heard that a few times. But maybe it’s classified as a roar.

Men with light beards are more likely to suffer heart attacks than men with heavy beards. Or so concluded medical statisticians some time back. They said a computer study of heart patients at a New York hospital showed a significant majority before their attacks felt the need to shave routinely only ever second or third or even fourth day. Oddly, there were no further reports on the matter.