Trivia and Amazing Facts 24-03-08

• A "threnody" is a song of lamentation, a funeral song, or a dirge.

• Someone who is eager or ready to shed blood is "sanguinary."

• The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.

• There are five types of simple machines: the lever, the pulley, the inclined plane, the screw, and the wheel and axle.

• Butterfly. The monarch butterfly can discern tastes 12,000 times more subtle than those perceivable by human taste buds.

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