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Good Job, Brain!

87: The Truth About Cats and Dogs

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2013

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

BREAKING MEWS! Put your paws up for some barking mad trivia about our furry companions: the amazing death-defying righting reflex of cats and "high-rise syndrome," we sift through the colorful history of cat litter, the many faces of Cerberus, and a purr-fect quiz. We try to answer burning questions like do dogs really watch and understand TV? How many toes can a cat actually have? ALSO: "Um, Actually" double-header Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Hello Zaney, Zayney, Zoo of Zippy Zealots.

0:19.2

Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and Off-The trivia podcast this is episode 87 and I'm

0:25.1

your humble host Karen and we are your scrappy scrambling but scrumptious scrupulous

0:30.9

screwball.

0:31.9

Does that make sense?

0:34.0

Yeah, sure.

0:35.0

It makes no more or less sense than the other ones down.

0:37.0

Yeah, I'm Colin.

0:38.0

I'm Dana.

0:39.0

And I'm Chris on the previous episode of Good Job Brain. I'm pretty sure I for some very

0:45.3

strange reason kept saying 10,000 leagues under the sea.

0:48.6

And everybody's not a lot. Yeah sure this sounds about right. He seems so confident.

0:53.6

Right. I was like, it's 20, but I didn't.

0:56.6

I didn't even know what I was saying, honestly. Like, I really thought I was saying it

1:00.0

the correct way. The books, because you're focusing on the league fact. 20,000 leagues. the I actually and it wasn't it wasn't really an error but it was more of an omission from last episode.

1:20.0

I shared mnemonics for superlatives for bodies of water, like the largest lakes, and a couple of people

1:26.4

online noticed that Caspian Sea is the largest, technically largest sea or lake.

1:34.0

Caspian Sea is a little bit weird because it's called a sea,

1:38.0

but technically it is landlocked,

1:40.0

so that makes it a lake.

1:42.0

But then I dug deeper and turns out there's some oceanic plate involvement

1:47.6

so it also can be called a small ocean. So it depends on what the international law is so it can be classified as

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