F. Y. I.

Small Wonders

Dragonflies have six legs but can't walk.

By Measure

It takes more than 34 gallons of water to produce the beans for one cup of coffee.

Back Then

Urine was once used  ------- and preferred over soap by many launderers ------ for cleaning and whitening clothes.

Quotable

by  Lyle Lovett, singer-songwriter

"I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard.  It's having a good idea that's hard."

Strange Praise

The "cat's pajamas" and "bee's knees" were among a handful of phrases, including the "canary's tusk" and "flea's eyebrows," coined in the 1920s to describe remarkable people or things.

Still on the Books

In Vail, Colo., it is illegal to crash into obstacles on a ski slope.