Jigglers
This feline behavior typically associated with contentment is actually an extraordinary technique allowing their bones to heal rapidly.
What is purring
The Procyon Lotor or 'before the dog, washer' were named for their behavior of washing their food which makes their paws more sensitive for investigating prospective snacks.
What is a raccoon?
This pyramid of Teotihuacan where Boogie proposed to Lex (yee haw!), was constructed year ~200 would later be inspiration for the Aztec deity known as Quetzalcoatl.
What is the Temple of the Feathered Serpent?
This pleasingly long necked aquatic reptile of legend was one of the few that gave live birth to their bebbies.
What is a Plesiosaurus?
Hamantashen, filled cookies traditionally eaten during the Jewish Purim celebration, Get their name from the villanious character Haman's... what?
What is ear?
A group of these cute jiggly possibly immortal creatures is called a 'smuck', but don't try putting them on your toast!
What is a jellyfish medusa?
Erpeton tentaculatum have a pair of mechanosensory tentacles on their snout like a lil moustache for detecting fish in murky water. They whip their back end to scare fish into their jaws.
What is a Tentacled Snake?
The largest bay in the world overlooked by Christ the Redeemer is especially warm and pleasant in January.
What is Guanabara Bay?
The longest word ever to appear in literature, 'lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephaliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon' is the name a monstrous scooby-doo dinner dish containing 14 types of fish among other ingredients, from a comedica play by this ancient greek writer.
Who is Aristophanes?
The 1960's American colloquialism "toss your cookies" referes to taking what action?
What is barfing/vomitting?
The jelly-type edible fungus includes the White Cloud Ear and this other much darker species.
What is a wood ear?
Athena's adorable lil' miners, this bird steal burrows from rodents and sets up ambushes with shredded cattle dung as bait for insects.
What is a Burrowing Owl, Athene cunicularia?
Take a train ride all the way up the alps to see this snowy maiden from the highest station in Europe.
What is Jungfraujoch?
This order of animals includes the Man'o'War and Apolemia the longest animal in the world. Actually a collective of modular zooids with specialized cooperative functions that share food by siphoning it through their chain of connected bodies. (Like human centipede oh no!)
What is a Siphonophore?
Ruth Graves Wakefield inventor of the Chocolate Chip Cookie, Boogie's Fav, at Toll House Inn Mass. originally call her lil cookies this.
What is Chocolate Crunch Cookie?
This seaweed derived organic polymer is used to make popping boba in a process called spherification.
What is Sodium Alginate?
In 1878 the gentleman bandit left this poem behind after robbing a Wells Fargo stagecoach. Here I lay me down to sleep - To wait the coming morrow, - Perhaps success, perhaps defeat, - And everlasting sorrow. - Let come what will, I'll try it on, - My condition can't be worse; - And if there's money in that box - 'Tis munny in my purse.
Who is Black Bart?
This shield volcano is the newest above the sea in the Hawaiian Islands and the place where Lex popped the question. I Lava to lava you baby!
What is Kīlauea?
This enormously long undersea fiber optic cable wraps 45Million meters around Africa bringing high speed internet to the continent, much of it for the first time.
What is the 2africa cable?
The first modern cookies were made as little test cakes that bakers would make as their ovens warmed up for the day in this arid region when sugar first became widely available in the 7th century.
What is Persia?
A chemisthetically active substance found in Zanthoxylum (notably szechuan/sansho peppercorn) that activates light touch receptors to produce a 'buzzing' feeling in your mouth or skin.
What is sanshool?
The Black International anarchist group responsible for the 1886 Haymarket bombing in chicago also claim to have burned down the exhibition hall on this Pittsburgh native hunter's island three years earlier.
What is Killbuck island?
She was a Pittsburgh born architect that designed many famous building in and around the Grand Canyon from 1905 to 1935 including the Phantom Ranch and the Bright Angel Lodge.
Who is Mary Colter?
In 1958 Rob and John this persistent pair completed an astounding endurance flight lasting almost 65 days and requiring mid-flight oil and spark plug changes and engine cleaning via alcohol injection in a modified Cessna 172.
Who are Robert Timm and John Cook?
Lex's favorite cookie, the ginger snap is made pungent by these three chemicals, in addition to the capsaicin from the cayenne.
What are gingerol, shogaol, and zingerone?