Trivia

The human brain usually is said to work at about 15 percent of capacity. Yes, that high.

Q. Did you say the right whale has eyebrows?

A. And mustache. And beard. And sideburns.

Devout Hindus don’t wear leather shoes.

Dolphin sonar so well reflects the shapes of objects it’s described by the scientists as the “functional equivalent” to vision.

Bones in the fin of the sperm whale are much like human hand bones. Scientists say that suggests the sperm whale once was a land mammal. And possibly played the piccolo? No, clean that up.

If you have an old mattress propped against a junkroom wall, better get rid of it. That’s what the firefighters say. Stored mattresses, they report, are exceedingly hazardous.

Q. What do you call a four-road intersection?

A. A “quadrivial.”

Claim is it’s harder for a cockroach to walk vertically up a wall than upside down across a ceiling.