Lockdown 193

Lockdown Day 193- 5 October 2020

Life. Part 3. We are so busy being serious about life, I decided to find fun facts about life. Enjoy:

-The average person spends 6 months of their life waiting for a red traffic light to turn green.

-Love toast? One lightning bolt generates enough energy to toast a hundred thousand slices of bread.

-Cherophobia: The irrational fear of being happy (not being scared of singer Cher) 

-A blue whale's heart beats 8 to 10 times per minute and can be heard 2 miles away.

-A blue whale's tongue weighs as much as an elephant.

-28 000 Yellow rubber ducks were lost at sea after falling from a cargo ship in 1992. Some made it all the way to the Atlantic and some were found frozen in ice. To this day, there are still many of them "lost at sea".

-London cabbies have to take a  4 year long series of tests called The Knowledge, requiring them to study 320 routes, 25 000 streets plus 20 000 landmarks.

-Artist Jim Sanborn created a sculpture outside CIA HQ in Langley, Virginia, which fittingly includes uncracked codes. Featuring 4 inscriptions, 3 have been cracked, with the 4th still a mystery. (In 2010 he offered a clue: The letters NYPVTT are an encryption of the word BERLIN.)

-The largest snowflake recorded was in 1887, witnessed by US Army staff in Montana, measuring 15 inches (38.1cm) wide.

-Scotland has more than 400 words for snow,  including snaw (snow), feefle (swirls of snow), and flindrinkin (a light snow shower). And that giant snowflake that fell in Montana—that would be called a skelf. 

-In Oregon, the city of Boring has a sister city in Perthshire, Scotland, called Dull. Oregon's governor named August 9 to be the official Boring and Dull Day throughout the state. 

-The punctuation mark ?! is called an interrobang.

-Sea otters hold hands while they sleep.  This ridiculously cute behavior is to avoid floating away from their partner during sleep. Sometimes they hold hands in groups, producing a "raft."(aaaawww) 

-The blob of toothpaste that sits on your toothbrush is called a nurdle, boasting a lawsuit over which toothpaste company had the right to depict it.

-Tic Tac mints are named after the sound their container makes.

-In Tsovkra, a small, secluded village in Dagestan, everyone who's physically able can walk on a tightrope in a tradition that's existed for more than 100 years, producing at least 17 famous tightropers in circuses all over the world.  It's even taught in school to the village children. 

-Great white sharks are so scared of killer whales that they'll avoid an area for up to a year after spotting one.

-The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella.

Tonight I shall dream (Ria, this one's for you) of becoming the finder of those lost yellow rubber duckies, being caught in a flindrinkin, hanging an interrobang on my glabella while swimming in a sea otter raft. Or maybe I'll take a ride on a skelf to Boring and Dull while chewing on a colgate nurdle. 

And I thank God for life's funnies and a sense of awe and humour. And of course because He's got this.