Did You Know? (10-26-07)

• When Voyager 2 visited Neptune it saw a small irregular white cloud that zips around Neptune every sixteen hours or so now known as “The Scooter”.

• Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

• Crows have the largest cerebral hemispheres, relative to body size, of any avian family.

• Martha’s Vineyard once had its own dialect of Sign Language. One deaf person arrived in 1692 and after that there was a relatively large genetically deaf population that had their own particular dialect of sign language. From 1692-1910 nearly all hearing people on the island were bilingual in sign language and English.

• Most of the little schoolhouses in the U.S. of yesteryear were painted red because red was the least expensive paint color.

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