You ever remember learning things when you were young that make absolutely no sense? Something so bizarre it seems more likely your memory is playing a trick on you — only you know you it’s true? I remember learning about the colors of the stoplight in nursery school, being told there was red, yellow, green and blue. I can almost-but-not-quite remember what blue meant, but I definitely remember Mrs. Hall talking about it. Another from first grade has always stayed with me. I like it.
The wall calendar our in-class bathroom (lux!) had a litte writing at the bottom of each day, odd facts; this was the ‘80s, before every sugary non-carbonated drink cornered the market on trivia in the ‘90s.