Trivia

Some military historians think the hand grenade is the oldest firepower weapon. They believe earthenware grenades were thrown as far back as 1,000 years ago.

Q. Why does the product name WD-40 mean?

A. (W)ater (D)isplacement, (40)th formulation, its lab designation.

Two-thirds of a shark’s brain does little but process things sniffable.

Q. What was the first manufactured item exported from what’s now the United States?

A. Tar. Settlers in Virginia’s Jamestown distilled its makings for shipment in 1608 to the colony’s sponsors in England.

In the 1880s, the Vinous Rubber Grape Co. manufactured thin-skinned rubber containers about the size of grapes, filled with wine or hard liquor. For sale to those who chose to disguise their drinking. Pop the capsule in your mouth, they were told, and swallow the contents, then dispose of the container as you would a tough grape skin.

Among dogs, too, the male is more difficult to housebreak.

Those who study the crayon art of children claim all normal youngsters worldwide draw the same things at the same age in the same way.