By his own admission, author Neil Gaiman is good at changing diapers.
There’s a scene near the end of Citizen Kane where Kane and his wife throw a lavish picnic on the beach in Florida. In the background, there is rear projection originally created for King Kong (or possibly the sequel), and the birds are in fact pterodactyls.
The expression, “Great Scott,” comes from Winfield Scott who was the commanding general of the U.S. Army in the 1840s, ’50s, and early ’60s.
The volume of blood pumped by the human heart can vary from
1.3 to 8 gallons per minute. Over a lifetime, a heart will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels of blood — enough to fill 200 train tanker cars.
The electric eel is not an eel at all. Rather, it is a kind of knifefish.
This article appears in November 27 • 2015.