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Yes. “Cold-blooded” is an informal term for calm, heavy draft breeds such as Percherons, Shires, Clydesdales, and Belgians; it does not refer to body temperature.

A loaded backpacking pack should generally weigh no more than about 20 percent of your body weight, or about 30 pounds for a 150-pound hiker. Day packs should stay under about 10 percent.

An 8×8 chessboard holds 1,296 grid-aligned rectangles (including 204 squares): choose 2 of 9 vertical and 2 of 9 horizontal lines, 36 x 36 = 1,296.

A birdie is one stroke under par on a golf hole, such as a 3 on a par-4. An eagle is two under par, an albatross three under, and a bogey one over.

Pilsners are lagers: the pale, hoppy style from Pilsen in Bohemia is brewed with bottom-fermenting lager yeast and cold-conditioned, and both Czech Pilsner and German Pils are classified as lagers in the BJCP style guidelines.

Most golf balls have between 300 and 500 dimples; the exact count varies by model. Dimples cut drag so a spun ball flies much farther than a smooth sphere.

A standard chessboard has 64 unit squares (8×8). Counting every square of every size on the grid gives 204. Both answers are correct for different questions.

World Series home-field advantage goes to the pennant winner with the better regular-season record, not postseason seed. Ties use head-to-head, then intradivision, then interdivision.

The World Series is best-of-seven: the first team to win four games is champion, so a series can last four to seven games (MLB format since 1922).

MLB rules require bats to be one piece of solid wood, at most 2.61 inches thick and 42 inches long; most players swing maple, followed by ash and yellow birch.