Trivia
In floods, beavers sometimes cut spillways through their dams, presumably to relieve the water pressure. So? Are beavers capable of reasoning? Or is that a sophisticated example of genetic memory? Your answer, please? Before the next flood.
That panda at birth is only about as big as a bar of handsoap.
Many a mom and dad would consider naming their newborn baby girl “Cynthia.” Rarer are they who’d call her “Moon.” Why? “Cynthia” means “moon” in Greek.
A snake’s gastric juices can digest bones but not hair, teeth or fur. Curious.
Bears live amidst magnificent vistas, but they lack a love of landscape. What matters to them are scents and sounds. Fruit fragrance. Bees abuzzing. Jumping fish. Gunshots. Extremely near-sighted, those bears. They’re not exhilarated by sundown’s crimson horizon. They do not need a room with a view.
“The cable TV sex channels,” said the observant Bill Maher, “don’t expand our horizons, don’t make us better people, and don’t come in clearly enough.”
Q. What baseball teams started the American League?
A. Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis. On Jan. 29, 1900.
Indianans have been informed that baby chicks in their state now outnumber them by 10 to 1.
Q. What do rats and horses have in common?
A. Neither can vomit. That’s about it.
More than half of the world’s vertebrates are fish.
That word “intelligentsia” came into English from the Russian around 1907.