A trivia question from my 5-year-old niece, of all people, and only on of us at the virtual seder knew the answer — and he might have cheated, because who can tell when we’re scattered across the continent?
What animal has three hearts?
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Maud Adams?
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I don’t know, but unless it draws two more, it still loses to a straight, three of a kind, etc.
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Octopus/Squid
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Is this an actual factual question with an actual answer? Not a “riddle” answer such as “a rabbit with two cabbages” or anything? Or “a woman pregnant with twins.”
If it’s factual, I don’t know.
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I like the way you think, Pete — but it’s a legit question, and I looked it up afterward to be certain. Because the question did, after all, come from a 5-year-old and honestly, I didn’t completely trust my brother to have checked it out.
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My first guess was earthworm, but that’s apparently wrong: ‘Earthworms can have five, 10 or zero hearts, depending on how you define “heart.” They have five pairs of aortic arches that run along the length of its body (or 10 single arches, if you count each pair…’
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Yeah, I looked it up, and it’s an amazing fact. I heard something just a few days ago about their brains, too–the original multiprocessor system.
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Frogs have a three-chambered heart…but that’s all I got
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I would guess that your niece was paying attention when she watched Pixar’s “Finding Dory”, in which this detail is a matter of discussion between Dory and Hank, the seven-armed octopus.
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P.S. @ CIDU Bill – Here’s a counter question for your niece: “What animal starts off life with three teeth?”
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Octopus. Learned it at an aquarium.
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Yes, Kilby, it was indeed Finding Dory.
And Downpuppy, props for your cryptic response.
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Oh, ya gotta have Sartre
Miles and miles and miles of Sartre
You can talk about Camus
till you’re blue
But baby, you’re through
Unless you gotta lotta Sartre
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That’s great, Mitch4. Applause, applause.
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Another good one: What animal will digest its own heart during starvation?
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Some snakes do stuff like that. They’ll enlarge organs to digest a big meal, then they’ll shrink afterward (basically being reabsorbed) between meals.
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A doe with a boyfriend.
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And the boyfriend of the doe has three hinds.
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