Trivia

Q. Perfume makers once used ambergris. It comes from sperm whales. What do the whales use it for?

A. To protect their digestive tract linings from sharp cuttlefish they eat. It’s an oily secretion.

A mother manatee sometimes clutches her baby to her breast with one flipper as she treads water, and those who’ve seen her do it say it “looks so human.”

“Popular Mechanics” predicted in 1949 that “… computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”