Tide You Over

Well, here's your filler, till I am upright again.  Hospital tomorrow…new report time is 8 am, with the first ceremonial cut scheduled for 10 am.  That's the first schedule change, others will most certainly follow.  I may have to to a post-op post or two on my experience.

But on to our topic. I love this stuff.  What would a shrink say that says about me?  Who the hell cares.  Read on, and be enlightened (I hope these are accurate. For all I know, some of them are a lie from the pit of hell):

Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa

Anne Frank, Martin Luther King, Jr…and Barbara Walters were born in the same year, 1929

Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.

Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.

Hippo milk is pink.

Carrots were originally purple.

The heart of a whale is so big, a human can swim through the arteries. Nice visual.

Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is.  Seriously?

Home Alone was released closer to the moon landing than it was to today.

Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

France was still executing people with the guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out.  Ouch!

Betty White is actually older the sliced bread.

Not once in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it mention he is an egg.

A strawberry isn't a berry but a banana is.  So are avocados and watermelon.

New York City is further south than Rome, Italy.

North Korea and Finland are separated by only one country.

Mammoths went extinct 1,000 years after the Egyptians finished the Great Pyramid.

Nintendo was founded as a trading card company back in 1889.

The last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, women did not have the right to vote.

If you shrunk the sun down to the size of a white blood cell and shrunk the Milky Way Galaxy down using the same scale, it would be the size of the continental United States.  Think on that a bit.

John Tyler (10th US President), has a grandson who is alive today.

Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.  Well, that explains so much!

Alaska is simultaneously the most northern, most western, and most eastern state in the U.S.

Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet.

There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth.  Wow! Think about that one.  Why, just Nauset Beach alone…..

There are more public libraries than McDonalds in the U.S.  Maybe there's hope?

You can't hum while holding your nose. Well, I can't anyway.

The pyramids were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us.

There is 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.  OK, that bothers me.

And 90% of the cells that make us up aren't human but mostly fungi and bacteria.  Now, I'm really freaked.

Turtles can breathe out of their butts.  TMI.  Actually, I know people like that.

There are more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans on Earth.

The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur is almost 100%. Through the dinosaur???

At the time the current oldest person on Earth was born, there was a completely different set of human beings on the planet.

And finally, for KBF, the dot over an "i" is called a tittle.  So there.

Mark Twain Quote:  "Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it."