STRANGE BUT TRUE: April 19, 2018

It was Hungarian psychiatrist Thomas Stephen Szasz who made the following sage observation: “If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.”

* That iconic symbol of the Old West, the Pony Express, was based on the mail system used throughout the Mongol Empire in the 13th century. However, the Mongol riders often covered 125 miles in a single day, which was faster than the best record held by a Pony Express rider.

* Someone with way too much spare time discovered that a quarter has 119 grooves on its edge.

* What’s in a name? A great deal, it turns out, if you...