Questions I needed answered

• In the United States, we drive on the right. We also tend to walk down hallways on the right, and escalators are arranged so that the one going the way you want to go is on the right. In the United Kingdom and lots of other places, they drive on the left. Does hallway protocol and escalator (or are they called 'lifts' or something silly like that too?) placement, etc. follow the same pattern? Read Emily's Answer! Read Stuart's Answer and Other Question!
  • I was right. Kind of curious, really...

• I'm not too keen on Bible Trivia, but does anyone know how many kids Adam and Eve had, and their Genders? Also, grandchildren and further down the family tree would be helpful as well.
  • A lot of people answered tell me that the known kids were called "Seth", "Cain" and "Abel", and that they were all boys. Thank you. The original idea was to make a sort of family tree to show the intergenerational and intrafamilial copulation that must have occured... but I am also told that the Bible (or biblical scholars, or both) explain this by telling me that God also made a whole bunch of women for the boys to marry and have children with. So strike the family tree idea.

• The lore goes that the Mad Hatter in Alice In Wonderland comes from an old expression "Mad as a Hatter", which itself comes from the fact that many hatmakers were mad, because of their use of mercury in the hat factory. Does anyone know what you would possibly use mercury for in the manufacture of hats? Did they just slosh about in it for no reason?
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