On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles. (Never mind "These boots are made for walking." It makes me wonder how many miles my fingers have travelled whilst blogging.)
On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles. (Never mind "These boots are made for walking." It makes me wonder how many miles my fingers have travelled whilst blogging.)
If you wore a pair of glasses that made what you see appear up-side-down, after about six months your brain would work-out what was wrong and would adjust your vision to turn it the right way up. But upon taking the glasses off again the world would appear up-side-down, and again it would take about […]
Almonds are a member of the peach family. (Amygdalus Persica - Peach TreeAmygdalus Communis Dulcis - Sweet Almond You should never plant a peach shrub or tree near an almond tree. As the peach is related to the almond the two sorts are easily crossed. The result is bitter nuts! That's just peachy! Does that […]
In ancient Greece, women counted their age from the date they were married. (That means I am 10 today!)
A blue whale's tongue is as big an an elephant. (Seemingly 50 brave people could stand on a blue whale's tongue.)
A jiffy is a measurable unit of time. ("In a jiffy." How many times have you said, or heard that? When someone says "I'll be with you in a jiffy", they actually mean "a moment or a short amount of time". The etymology of the word 'jiffy' is uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary says "Origin […]