USELESS INFO TUESDAY, BUT IT IS WEDENSDAY, BECAUSE I FORGOT TO POST IT ON TUESDAY...

~   A boa constrictor can move only about 1 mile per hour on open ground.

~  A Cairene is a native or inhabitant of Cairo, Egypt.

~  Bamboo was the wood used in making Charlie Chaplin's trademark Little Tramp cane.

~  Mercury, the winged messenger of the Roman Gods, was the first official symbol of the U.S. postal service.  He was the symbol from 1782 to 187, when he was replaced by a running pony.  The current symbol, the eagle, replaced the pony in 1970.

~  In days of yore, the occupation of a whacker was a driver of a team of horses or oxen.