Interesting Facts

Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.

•	The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long
•	Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile
•	A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
•	A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.(the Wright brother's invented the airplane)
•	There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
•	One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny
•	The word "set " has the most number of definitions in the English language;192
•	Slugs have four noses
•	Sharks can live up to 100 years
•	Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
•	Kangaroos can't walk backwards
•	About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday
•	The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887
•	The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
•	Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency
•	Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints
•	There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human
•	It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
•	The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002
•	Octopus have three hearts
•	If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange

•	The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
•	Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
•	Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
•	Most cats are left pawed.
•	A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
•	You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!.
•	Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
•	An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
•	Bone is five times stronger than steel.

Lessons on Life

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall. When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen. The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. The second sonsaid no it was covered with green buds and full of promise. The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen. The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment. The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each been but only one season in the tree's life. He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up. If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring,the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.

Moral: Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest. Don't judge life by one difficult season. Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time or later