My Week In Facts

I have one of those annoying memories that doesn't remember useful things, like calculus formulas or how to take the derivative, but will retain bizarre tidbits of information. These pieces of information serve no purpose other than occasionally filling awkward silences. I'm kind of like the little boy in Jerry Maguire telling everyone he meets how much a human head weighs (8 pounds...just in case you haven't seen the movie).

So here are a few that have come up in recent weeks...filling any awkward blog silence...

1. Whales have leg (femur) bones.
2. Baby blue whales gain about 200 pounds a day.
3. Basque (from Northern Spain) is a language isolate, meaning that it has no connection to any other language.
4. A group of ravens is called an unkindness of ravens, in the same ways that a group of crows is called a murder of crows.
   
5. Triplets are considered full term at 32 weeks.
6. Don't quote me on this last one, because I haven't had time to fully research it, but it's possible that beavers become intoxicated from too much saltwater.