in unrelated news facts:
Over 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people
On male shirts the buttons are on the right side, on female shirts the left side. This is due to wealthy women using slaves many years ago to dress them. The buttons were on the right side to the slaves who buttoned up the shirts…
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
An attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second.
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
The odds of a mother having twins are 90 to 1
A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head before it starves to death.
The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of ”Lorne Green’s Wild Kingdom.”
A single large tree can release up to 400 gallons of water into the atmosphere each day.
One acre of trees absorbs enough carbon dioxide per year to match that emitted by driving a car 26,000 miles
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet!
Pardon?
Maids yes but rarely slaves.
Even in places where slavery was common the Lady's Maid was usually a free woman, an upper class servant not quite as high as the governess but certainly the equal of the housekeeper.