STRANGE BUT TRUE

• It was 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who made the following sage observation: “One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”

• Are you an agelast or an abderian? If you never laugh, you’re the latter; if you laugh too much, you’re the former.

• There is one species of frog, found in the Southeast Asian country of Indonesia, that has no lungs; it breathes entirely through its skin.

• You might be surprised to learn that the largest employer in the United States is the Department of Defense. Wal-Mart is...