Trivia

Also among shrimp, when local males get scarce enough to threaten survival of the species thereabouts, some females turn into males.

You’re a good keyboarder if you only make one mistake every 300 strokes, according to the experts.

Q. Those electric catfish of Africa - are they big?

A. Up to 4 feet long. Maybe 55 pounds. Zapping 350 volts.

Claim is that your doctor and mine can now buy replacement parts for every organ in our bodies except the brain and central nervous system. Sorry to hear that about the brain. Was kind of hoping.

An owl can’t roll its eyes to see what’s behind. Doesn’t matter. It can swivel its head to see back there. An elephant can’t turn its head far enough to see what’s behind. But that doesn’t matter, either, I imagine. It doesn’t care.

A German medical student named Paul Langerhans in 1869 discovered tiny spots - islands, they were called - in the human pancreas. About a million of them. One of the four hormones they produce was given the Latin name for islands - “insulin.”