Trivia

The great blizzard of 1888 caught a drover with his cattle far afield. No hideyhole, no chance for fire. He unsheathed his knife, killed his biggest ox, gutted it, crawled inside, and drew tight the hide across himself. Overnight, the freeze deepened. Hands found him next morning, alive, but helplessly locked up tight in his solid brick of beef.

Report is that hackers’ attempts to crack into military computer systems fall off during college finals.

Mama bear gives birth while asleep.

Both those veteran tough types, Charles Bronson and Jack Palance, once labored as coal miners.

Q. How deep is the Mediterranean Sea at its deepest? And where’s that?

A. About 16,800 feet below sea level. In the Ionian Basin south of Greece.

The sand in many a Gobi Desert dune blows up one side and down the other to fold over itself in an extraordinarily strong wind, thus to move the whole dune as much as 65 feet in one day.

It’s not unheard of for a stressed porpoise to get a stomach ulcer.