STRANGE BUT TRUE

• It was celebrated physicist Albert Einstein who made the following sage observation: “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

• It was in 1917 when one Dr. Walter G. Walford wrote an article warning readers of the perils of tight collars and ties, claiming that such constricting neckwear caused illness by retarding the flow of blood to the brain.

• It’s fairly well known that seahorses are monogamous, staying with the same mate until death. Many people don’t realize, however, that these fish are so devoted that every day they reaffirm their union with a morning gre...