In the Summer Games from 1912 to 1948, musicians, painters, and plenty of other aesthetes went brain-to-brain in events such as lyric poetry and chamber music. 'Town planning' was even contested one year under the umbrella of the architecture competition. The Olympic committee ought to bring these events back. Well, maybe not town planning'but add trivia to the mix instead. Organizers can throw in a few sports questions for good measure, but with trivia, if you're not working up a sweat thinking, you're not doing it right. And by the way, did you know that humans have a bone that does not connect to any other' We think of the skeleton as pretty contiguous, but in the middle of the neck, the hyoid bone, which supports the base of the tongue, is articulated only distantly to the rest of the skeleton by muscles and ligaments. It is, as scientists call it, a 'floating bone.'
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