JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW EVERYTHING…

Someone bursts your bubble! After rather serious blogs the last few times, I decided it would be good to bring a smile to each of your faces. And, you might impress someone with your knowledge.

For writers, authors, and those who love the English language.

• The hashtag (#) is actually called the octotrophe

• The protagonist in C.S. Lewis’ science fiction trilogy was modeled after his friend and fellow author J.R.R. Tolkien.

• Tittle is the dot over lowercase i’s and j’s.

• Don Quixote is the best-selling novel of all time, with over 500 million copies so

• Only two English words in current use end in “-gry”. They are “angry” and “hungry”.

For those of us who like to think we know everything:

• Vatican City is its own country

• A giraffe’s tongue is 21 inches long.

• High heels were originally designed for men.

• The average color of outer space is beige (according to NASA).

Health and body facts:

• You can’t hold your breath and hum at the same time.

• Gorillas can and have been known to use birth control pills.

• You typically breathe out of one nostril at a time.

• Humans are the only animals with chins.

Look up more interesting facts at the sites below.

https://www.livingly.com/These+Random+Facts+Will+Make+You+Question+Everything+You+Thought+You+Knew

https://bestlifeonline.com/weird-questionable-facts

Now you can start the day being a little smarter!

To know what you know and what you do not know is true knowledge. (Confuscious)