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Hello all it is Monday
afternoon here now it was another cold start to the day but it has
warmed up no aqua class this morning went with Jessica to sort out
her rent and then to the shops before home again.
So here is this weeks
five did you know facts:
The
thumb is such an important part of the human body that it has a
special section, separate from the area that controls the fingers,
reserved for it in the brain.
Liechtenstein
used to have the world's smallest army, there was one soldier, yes
one. He served his country until his death at age 85.
Abraham
Lincoln's mother died from drinking milk from a cow which, when
foraging in the woods had eaten some poisonous snake root.
In
1955 a borrowed book was returned to Cambridge University Library
that was 288 years overdue
Cambridge
University was established in the year 1209
I LOVE interesting facts like these! I can recall them forever, but will often have to think hard to remember my house phone number!!!
ReplyDeleteBlessings, Joanne
Yes it can take a bloody long time for some people to remember their own phone number, I am happy you like these posts
DeleteWow! Some goodies this week. :)
ReplyDeletePleased you like them
DeleteHi JoAnne ... I love interesting snippets - sadly I rarely remember them ... I might do the cow one!! Oh and the Cambridge ones ... cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteI also rarely remember them
DeleteI wonder what the fine was on that overdue book at Cambridge.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
I thought that too
DeleteI didn't know any of those facts!
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