Today Years Old

There are so many things we're just
discovering, so many things we didn't
learn when supposedly we should have.

For example: that sharks have no bones
(only cartilage), but that giraffes and  
humans have the same number of neck bones. 

That jellyfish are practically immortal,
and some species of snails can hibernate
for up to three years. That goats 

have excellent panoramic vision 
because of rectangular pupils, and 
Chuck E. Cheese's full name is Charles

Entertainment Cheese. Whether or not
it's useful to know that on average,
you fart enough times a day to inflate

a party balloon, now you do. It's sort of 
like the discovery of simple machines: now 
you can't imagine how you got on 

without them. Gravity pulled the apple 
out of the tree— but before its discovery, 
humans and other creatures did not fly.