Strange But True: April 12, 2018

* It was Edna St. Vincent Millay, a playwright and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, who made the following observation: “A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.”

* I don’t know who studies such things, but those who do say that over the course of a lifetime, you’ll probably spend about three years in the restroom.

* Despite numerous arrests and trials, famed 19th-century outlaw Frank James was never convicted of anything and never went to prison. He died in 1915, at the age of 72, of natural causes.

* In Germany in the 1500s, a court...