Tidbits From The Earth

Each week the hometown newspaper has a column entitled, “Did you know?” It is a list of little known facts (little known to the general public… there maybe some who do know everything). A few of these are facinating:

Did you know…

that until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels (Always wondered how they came up with that name)
that in 1943, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation (I would have guessed suffocation or claustrophobia)
that you should never hold your nose and cover your mouth while sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeball
that aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months (I like to think that I am alergic to them year-round)
that approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesday’s (why could it not be on a Friday or Saturday on game nights?)
that polar bears can eat up to 86 penguins in a single setting
that every three days a human stomach grows a new lining (what happens to the old ones?)
that watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour long baseball game (must be from the laughing one does while watching the suds. I would have to disagree especially when watching a football game at C & L’s… of course that is not baseball)
THAT IN SARATOGA FLORIDA IT IS ILLEGAL TO SING WHILE WEARING A BATHING SUIT (why and how about singing in the nude… not that I would want to push the envelope)
that about one-third of all Americans flush while still seated on the toilet (ok…)
that on average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs (mmm…. good)

Now that I have educated you all, go out and have a Snickers bar, go to Saratoga and sing in your bathing suit, and laugh those calories away watching a soap opera.