Here is a summary of something I got from one of my pie shop gang. I'm sharing these tidbits and then my "thoughts" on them.
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. - Thank goodness!
The body's strongest muscle is our tongue. - Mostly because it's over used.
Statistically, people are more afraid of spiders than they are of dying. - I'd bet statistically spiders are more afraid of humans than death.
All polar bears are left handed. - My daughter is a polar bear! :)
Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongue. - Neither can I. I am a crocodile!
Butterflies taste with their feet. - Good thing people aren't this way.
A cockroach can live 9 days without it's head. It only dies because it cannot eat. - I think some of my exs were cockroaches.
A duck's quack has no echo, and nobody knows why. - It probably goes to the same place my missing socks go.
Each King on playing cards represents a King in real history: Spades-King David, Clubs-Alexander the Great, Hearts-Charlemagne and Diamonds-Julius Cesar. - I got nothing.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. - But I've seen plenty of people try. Would my eyeballs pop out?
Starfish have no brains. - So many people are starfishes.
Mosquitos have teeth. - If they don't brush and floss, do they get cavities?
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. - Talk about being motivated to succeed!
The word "cemetery" comes from the Greek koimetirion which means dormitory. - Many dormitories resemble cemeteries early in the morning.
When the English settlers landed in Australia they notice the strange animal that jumped extremely high and far. They asked the aboriginal people using body language and signs trying to ask them about this animal. They responded with "Kan Ghu Ru" which the English adopted as kangaroo. The aboriginals were saying "we don't understand you". - classic example of miscommunication.
During historic civil wars, when troops returned without any casualties, a writing was put up so all can see which read "0 killed" from which we get the expression "O.K." - So as long as no one dies it's OK. Good to know!
Hope you enjoyed these.
l like that about the kangaroo. We call cemeteries simply church yards and they are not always by a church. so I guess we should call them grave yards. English is so full or foreign words, and I don't see though half of them, especially the ones that are of a latin origin. Then I mean also Spanish or Italian words and so on. Greek words are also Hebrew to me, so to speak. hahha
Good post.