If there’s one thing that internet search engines can confirm about human existence, it’s this: You’re not alone in your musings, no matter how offbeat.

Which is comforting. Sorta.

I became aware of this phenomenon a few years ago, when I broke my collarbone. The treatment included wearing a cross-body sling on my right arm, and I was struck by how much of a  load that put on my left shoulder.

“I wonder how much my right arm weighs?” I thought to myself.

Pre-Google I would have had to settle for a guess. Either that, or I could have pulled out a scale and tried to weigh my arm, which would have been too painful and would have brought me back to guessing.

Well, no more.

I started typing my question into the Google machine.

“How much does a woman’s . . . ”

Autofill offered several disturbing ways to complete that search phrase, along with the relatively innocuous words “arm weigh?”

Clearly, others had wanted to know the heft of a lady-wing.

Who are these weirdos? I wondered . . . before proceeding to the answer, which is:

About 5% of her body weight.

I glanced down at my 6-pound appendage.

No wonder it felt like I was lugging around a small dumbbell. I was.

Since then, I’ve noticed that no question is so esoteric, so arcane, so flippin’ odd that other people haven’t wondered the exact same thing.

Here’s a small sampling of the questions I’ve searched in the last several months, along with a little context about why I wanted to know, and the readily available answers.

Question: Why does Amal Clooney hate George Clooney’s dye job?

Why I wanted to know: Because I’m a big fan of Guilford County native and legendary World War II-era newsman Edward R. Murrow (hello, Murrow Boulevard), and because George Clooney darkened his hair for his role in the Broadway show Good Night and Good Luck, which is about how Murrow exposed McCarthyism.

Answer: Amal hates her husband’s dye job because she believes that nothing makes a man look older than using hair coloring, which, in my humble opinion, is a double standard — and also very true.

Question: Are crows attracted to bones?

Why I wanted to know: My younger son was at a friend’s apartment recently when they discovered what appeared to be a fragment of a deer jaw lying on a cushion. Huh? The best explanation: The friend’s dog had dragged in the fragment from the balcony, where . . . a bird had dropped it. (Let’s hope.)

Answer: Yes, crows are attracted to bones and other bright objects. They have been known to leave bones as “gifts” for people they like. Or want to terrorize. That part is unclear, although another Google search confirmed that crows can hold grudges against particular humans. This  led me to wonder about something else that, apparently, other people have pondered, too.

Question: Do crows laugh at people?

Answer: “There’s no evidence to suggest they find human actions humorous.”

Tough audience. Caw-caw-caw.

Question: Why do male tegus have two reproductive organs?

Why I wanted to know: OK, stay with me for a minute. I was talking to a veterinarian-friend about the most unusual pets she has ever seen, and she mentioned tegus, which are a kind of lizard. Then she mentioned in a by-the-by way — you know, how friends do when they’re discussing lizard genitalia — that male tegus have two, um, cold-blooded thingies, which led me to make a crude joke about how I know a few guys who might want to become reptiles.

Answer: Nature loves a Plan B. Sorry, human dudes.

Question: What does Cali-sober mean?

Why I wanted to know: I heard it on a podcast, natch.

Answer: Cali-sober (short for California-sober) means swearing off all intoxicants except weed, which, if you think about it, makes sense only if you’re high.

Question: Where does the phrase “great googly moogly” come from?

Why I wanted to know: Because it’s a phrase I know, but I’m not sure how I know it.

Answer: No less an intellect than author Stephen King has wondered the same thing. He traced the phrase back to 1950s bluesman Willie Dixon. Others point out that rocker Frank Zappa used the phrase in his 1974 song “Nanook Rubs It.” And apparently Grady uttered the words on the 1970s TV show Sanford and Son in clear anticipation of the internet age way before Lamont and the rest of us “big dummies” saw what was coming.

Question: How do dryer balls work?

Why I wanted to know: In case you haven’t noticed, dryer balls — which are balls that you put in a dryer; let’s hear it for the occasional obvious answer that is also correct — are on store shelves everywhere. I’d dismissed them as a gimmick until a veteran appliance repairman recommended them as a way to increase the efficiency of a clothes dryer.

Answer: Dryer balls work by “aerating” the clothes, creating more space between laundry items as they tumble, thereby cutting down drying time. I wouldn’t have believed it, but it seems to be true. The balls also soften clothes by beating the snot out them (my words, not the words of the dryer ball industry). And as an added bonus, your dryer will sound like a collegiate drum line, which should keep the crows from leaving deer bone fragments around your house. It works out.