Good morning all, here we are at another Monday, so that means it is facts day.
The first paper was made way back when dinosaurs walked the earth, using dried wood mashed into a pulp. These paper makers were wasps. These insects have always built their nests from home-made paper, which means they were making paper 300 million years before humans.
The longest word in the English language dictionary is “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” (I hoe I spelt that right)
Canada is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”
Venetian blinds did not originate in Venice: they were invented in Japan.
The Three-Toed Sloth is the slowest animal in the world, it can take three days to climb a medium sized tree.
I wonder what that longest word means?
ReplyDeleteLike Rita, I wanted to know what the word meant and I found it. The president of the National Puzzlers Association coined the word to be used for a disease called silicosis, which is some sort of a lung disease. I don't know why a short word would be replaced by one that's much longer, but I guess that's the sort of thing puzzlers do, although I've never met any and didn't know they had an association.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
I have difficulty trying to pronounce the longest word. New facts for me.
ReplyDeleteThat longest word is interesting, being from a medical background I work out what it meant.
ReplyDeleteThe other facts as interesting and I didn't know.
Given that being the source of the first paper, Id hate to be the caveman that invented toilet paper...
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I had to google "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" to see what it meant.
ReplyDeleteI was going to make a joke about how pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is what the Husband is infected with.... until I realized that it actually could be what he is sick from currently.
ReplyDeleteSo yeah, not as funny.
Rita.......Me too
ReplyDeleteJanie.....Thank you for this
Nancy........It is
Margaret D...........Thank you
Chris.....That's a funny thought
Karen..........Many would
Juli.....Yeah its not