-T-rex didn’t run. Because it had strong buttocks and weak ankles, it power walked.
-The Egyptian vulture has a yellow head because it eats poop.
-Surficial is a word. It means of or pertaining to the earth’s surface.
-A group of starlings is a murmuration.
-A “mean sidereal day” is the period of time during which the earth makes one revolution on its axis relative to a particular star. (23 hrs, 56 min, 4.09 sec)
-Rabbit hopping is a sport. And FYI: The world record in high jump is 39.17 inches by a Danish rabbit named Tosen. Yaboo, who’s also Danish, has the long jump record with 9.84 feet.
-Delicata squash and sweet dumpling squash are the same squash, in different shapes.
-The woman’s voice in all airport announcements comes from a real person—and she lives in Maine.
-Janet Reno is 6’1”.
-The Astros are moving to the American League.
-Moose calves are born without any bacteria in their systems so mamma moose lick their babies incessantly to give them bacteria.
-Orogeny is the process of the earth’s crust smashing together to make mountains.
-Two hundred years ago there were 27 letters in the alphabet. The last letter was & (the symbol for “and”). Because ending the alphabet with “X, Y, Z and and” sounds funny, people called the & “per se and” and finished the alphabet by saying “X, Y, Z and per se and.” Eventually “and per se and” became ampersand. (And at some point it was booted from the alphabet.)
-22 people invented the incandescent bulb before Thomas Edison.
Janet Reno is 6'1"??
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