L.M. Boyd Trivia

• No bridge spans the Amazon.

• The heart of one blue whale, caught in 1947, was actually put on the scales. It weighed 1,540 pounds.

• “Spendthrift” is not the only word in English with five consecutive consonants. But who remembers any others?

• Not one credit card holder in a jillion can tell the size of the card: 3 3/8 by 2 1/8 inches.

• You can tell the age of a mountain sheep by the rings on its horns.