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• The plural of octopus is not actually “octopi”, because “octopus” derives from the Greek words meaning “eight foot,” and the plural ending “-i” is Latin. The true Greek plural would be “octopodes” but the standard English word is “octopuses.”

• There are about 250 species of octopus known so far. The largest is the Giant Pacific octopus which inhabits the northern Pacific Ocean off the United States up to Alaska and around Japan. The suckers on their arms are three inches in diameter. Each sucker can lift 30 pounds, and there are about 1,600 suckers altogether, divided between the eight arms.

• The largest octopus ever found was a Giant Pacific octopus that weighed 600 pounds with an arm span of 32 feet.

• The Giant Pacific octopus is also among the longest-lived species, but still usually only reaches the age of three or four years.

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• A human has one brain with four distinct lobes, with each lobe in charge of a different function.

An octopus has nine brains with up to 75 different lobes. They use one central brain to control the nervous system and a small brain in each arm to control movement.

• Octopuses have no skeleton, but they do have powerful jaws, a parrot-like beak, and venomous saliva.

• Some people call octopus appendages “tentacles”, but that is incorrect; they are actually “arms.” Arms have suckers along their entire length, while tentacles have suckers only at the tip. This means that octopuses have eight arms and no tentacles, but cuttlefish, nautiluses, and squids have eight arms and two tentacles.

• The muscles in the arms are more similar to the muscles in a human tongue than to the human bicep. An octopus can turn its arms into a rigid rod, and can also shorten them in length by up to 70%. Its arm muscles can resist the strength of a pull amounting to 100 times the weight of the octopus.

• Octopuses can taste with their entire bodies, most especially in their suckers. The suckers can be folded in half and have such dexterity that they can untie a knotted string. When an octopus grabs a fish with the end of an arm, the arm does not deliver the fish directly to the mouth. Instead, the fish is passed the length of the arm, from one sucker to the next, like moving down a conveyor belt.

• Three-fifths of the neurons of an octopus are located in their arms rather than their brains. When severed, an arm can carry on for several hours as if nothing is wrong. When an octopus loses part of an arm, it can regenerate it in as little as six weeks. ...continued

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• Octopus eyes are strikingly similar to human eyes. However, there are differences: the octopus can see polarized light which humans cannot; it has wide-angle panoramic views instead of seeing only what’s ahead of it; and each eye can swivel independently. Octopuses are able to keep their eyes in the same orientation regardless of their body position. Sensors keep the pupils balanced as the octopus moves, which allows it to see the same whether it is upside down or right-side up. It also has horizontal pupils, while humans have round ones.

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• Human vision can see clearly to the horizon but an octopus can see clearly only about 8 feet away. Furthermore, humans can see in a full spectrum of color, whereas the octopus can see only in shades of black, white, and grey, making it all the more astonishing that its skin can change into so many colors that cannot even be detected by the color-blind octopus. Just as humans are either right-handed or left-handed, an octopus is either right-eyed or left-eyed.

• Scientists recently found that octopus skin contains the same light-sensitive proteins present in octopus eyes, meaning an octopus’s skin can sense and respond to light without information from the eyes or brain.

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• Octopuses change color to indicate mood, with red generally indicating excitement while white denotes relaxation. An octopus presented with a puzzle or a problem undergoes rapid changes in color. The deadly blue ring octopus of Australia will send dozens of electric blue rings all over its body when it is feeling threatened.

• How do you tell a male from a female? Examine the tip of the third right arm. If it has suckers all the way to the tip, it’s female. If not, it’s a male.

The tip of the third right arm on the male is kept carefully curled up because the tip is the organ that he places inside the female’s mantle opening in order to deliver a packet of sperm which she stores.

• How do you tell the age of an octopus? You don’t.

Growth rate depends on many factors including temperature of the water.

• Over the course of three weeks, a typical Giant Pacific octopus may lay as many as 100,000 eggs, each the size of a grain of rice, shaped like a teardrop, and carefully woven together with a glue-like secretion in a chain resembling braided onions. They hang from the roof and sides of the den, carefully guarded by their mother. They are fertilized by sperm that the father donates, and the mother stores in a gland until it’s needed.

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• The ink squirted by an octopus acts as a smoke screen so it can get away from predators, but it also contains substances that affect the predator, including an enzyme that irritates the eyes and clogs the gills, and a hormone that affects circulation. The ink can also dull the attacker’s ability to smell and taste. Scientists were befuddled to find that the ink also contains the “feel-good” hormone dopamine and theorize it may drug potential predators into complacency, while also sedating potential prey. If an octopus is unable to escape its own cloud of ink, it may die.

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• Despite many people's assumptions, the word "bayou" doesn't come from French; it's from the Choctaw word "bayuk."

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• In February of this year, a Japanese man named Yuya Yamada broke his own Guinness World Record for the largest hula hoop spun around the body three consecutive times -- the hoop in question measured 17.72 feet in diameter.

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• Peter Gray was right-handed up until the day he fell off of a horse-drawn wagon. His right arm got tangled in the moving spokes of the wheels. The wagon driver dropped him off on his front porch of his house, where his horrified parents rushed him to the doctor. The arm was so mangled that it could not be saved, and at the age of 8, Peter Gray became left-handed because that’s the only hand he had left. The year was 1923.

• After six seasons with the minor leagues, Peter landed his first major league contract when the St. Louis Browns of the American League purchased his contract from the Chicks for $20,000. Gray played left and center field for the Browns, appearing in 77 games. He batted .218 with a .958 fielding percentage in center field. On May 19, 1945, he fulfilled his lifelong dream and played a double header in Yankee Stadium, collecting five hits and two RBI as the Browns swept the Yankees. The first game ended 10-1 and the second ended 5-1.

• Peter had always loved baseball and losing an arm did nothing to deter his passion. He taught himself to hit, • However, as the season progressed, it became apparent that he could not hit breaking pitches as well pitch, and field one-handed. By the age of 19 he was as two-handed batters, due to the fact that he could playing semi-pro and minor league baseball with a vanot change the timing or direction of the swing once riety of teams. it started. Pitchers on opposing teams took advan• After Pearl Harbor in 1941, Peter tried to join the tage of this handicap, throwing curve balls all seaArmy but was turned away due to being an amputee. son long.

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handle a bat one-handed; I ought to be able to handle a • When World War II ended and wounded soldiers returned home, Peter Gray visited many hospitals to rifle, too!” Instead, he returned to the ball field. give hope to other amputees, reassuring them that • In 1942 he signed with the minor league team called the they could still lead happy and productive lives in Three Rivers Club of the Canadian–American League. spite of missing limbs.

An enormous crowd turned out to see him play, and he did not let his fans down. In the bottom of the ninth, • However, the return of soldiers also meant there was no shortage of men to play baseball, and the major with two outs and the bases loaded, he approached the leagues had plenty of talented players with two arms plate. He hit a line drive to the right field, which drove to choose from. Peter’s final big league game was in both the tying and winning runs. Overjoyed fans played in September of 1945. He returned to the mipelted the field with money, and Peter collected about nor leagues for another four seasons. $700.

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• The turn-out at the games helped him get noticed by the • Throughout the 1950s, Peter Grey played in exhibition games. In 1986, a movie based on his life minor league Memphis Chicks, and he was playing for starred Keith Carradine. It was called “A Winner them when a sportswriter dubbed him “the one-armed Never Quits.” In 1995 his biography was published, wonder.” In 1944, he batted .333 and had an incredible entitled “One-Armed Wonder: Pete Gray, Wartime 68 stolen bases. That same year he was awarded the Baseball, and the American Dream.”

Most Valuable Player of the Southern Association, and the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association recognized • Peter Gray died in 2002 at the age of 87. him as the “Most Courageous Athlete.”

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• “You set a curfew and a bedtime for your children because you know that kids need a good amount of sleep to keep those little bodies growing and their minds happy. Do you do the same for yourself? It’s tempting to stay up late zoning out after the kids are (finally) in bed, but make sure you get your rest, too. Set a bedtime and stick to it.” — T. in Oklahoma • Love your pod coffee maker but hate the waste? Almost every brand has some sort of reusable filter that you can purchase. They are cost-efficient and much better for the environment. As a bonus, just add those used coffee grounds to your compost pile or sprinkle them in your garden.

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• On Nov. 1, 1512, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, one of Italian artist Michelangelo's finest works, is exhibited to the public for the first time. After demonstrating his mastery of sculpture, Michelangelo was called to Rome in 1508.

• On Oct. 31, 1776, in his first speech before British Parliament since the Americans signed the Declaration of Independence, King George III acknowledges that all is not going well for Britain in the war. The British would formally surrender five years later.

• On Oct. 30, 1938, Orson Welles causes a nationwide panic with his broadcast of "War of the Worlds" -- a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth. Welles had little idea of the havoc it would cause among radio listeners.

• On Nov. 3, 1948, the Chicago Tribune jumps the gun and mistakenly declares New York Gov. Thomas Dewey the winner of his presidential race with incumbent Harry Truman in a frontpage headline: "Dewey Defeats Truman." Truman would win by 114 electoral votes.

• On Oct. 29, 1956, Israeli armed forces push into Egypt toward the Suez Canal, initiating the Suez Crisis. They would soon be joined by French and British forces. The catalyst for the attack was the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser.

• On Oct. 28, 1965, construction is completed on the Gateway Arch, a spectacular 630-foot-high parabola of stainless steel on the waterfront of St. Louis, Missouri. An internal tram system takes visitors to the top of the arch.

• On Nov. 2, 1982, a fuel truck in a military convoy explodes in the 1.7-mile long Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing an estimated 3,000 people, mostly Soviet soldiers traveling to Kabul. Believing it to be an attack, troops closed both ends of the tunnel, trapping people inside.

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• When Andrew Jackson was president of the U.S. in the 1830s, a political cartoonist drew Jackson’s head on the body of a jackass. For the rest of his presidency, Jackson was dogged by this image.

The donkey began to be used for other Democrats too, eventually coming to symbolize the entire party. Later, cartoonist Thomas Nast drew an illustration depicting President Ulysses S. Grant’s scandal-plagued administration as a marauding elephant. Other cartoonists copied the idea and soon the elephant became the Republican symbol.

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• In physics, a “quantum jump” is when an electron moves from one orbit within an atom to anther orbit. During this process, the atom either loses or gains a photon. A quantum jump is the smallest possible change that can take place within an atom, but it is a sudden change that cannot be anticipated.

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• The Dutch word “kajutes” means “cabin.” During the Middle Ages, thieves lived in secret locations in the forest, inhabiting their “kajutes.”

When a group of bandits lived together in one encampment, they were said to be “in kajutes” which became our “cahoots.”

• Draco was a lawmaker in Athens around 700 B.C. He was the first person to actually write down all the laws. He didn’t create the laws; he just recorded them for the first time, setting them down on the record. Once they were in writing, many Greek citizens were appalled to see how awful the system of punishment was, where debtors were turned into slaves and petty thievery was punishable by death. As copies of the laws circulated, dissatisfaction grew, until eventually the whole system was thrown out and a new set of more civil rules was instigated. Although Draco did not create the rules, we still site his name when pointing to needlessly harsh punishment, or “draconian” rules.

• Offal means “off fall” and denotes organs and other extraneous body parts that “fall off” during the butchering of an animal.

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