Did You Know? September 2009

• A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana?
• A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100 watt bulb?
• A snail can have about 25,000 teeth?
• A silicone chip a quarter inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer which occupied a city block?
• A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length?
• Alexander The Great was an epileptic?
• According to Genesis 7:2, God told Noah to take 14 of each kind of animals in to the Ark?
• Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors?
• On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag?
• The screwdriver was invented before the screw?
• In Bangladesh, children as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals?
• In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs?
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying?
• According to Genesis 1: 20-22, the chicken came before the egg?
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow the film down so that you could see his moves?
• In Vermont, it is illegal for a woman to wear false teeth without written permission of their husband?
• The Philips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon?
• It is illegal in Bellingham for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing?

Know thyself?  If I knew myself, I’d run away.
-Goethe

I could tell my parents hated me.  My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
-  Rodney Dangerfield

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
- Becki Harvey

May your day be filled with blessings like the sun that lights the sky and may you always have the courage to spread your wings and fly.
- Shirley Mooney