Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed. Killer whales have such a good sense of touch that if you dropped a pill into a bucket and feed it to the orca it would eat the fish and spit out the pill. Bricklayers stooped over to pick up every brick and then stooped again to get mortar. At the time, unfortunately, unions resisted his improvements, and most workers persisted in using the old, fatiguing methods. Allan F. Mogensen, the creator of Work Simplification, coined the phrase in the 1930s.
Octopi have gardens.
Nine square yards is the amount of material needed to make a fine suit. There are 296 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground. Handel's Messiah was written in 3 weeks. Alaska is one fifth of the size of the contiguous United States, and borders two oceans and three seas.