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The French Saint John Baptiste Vianney, Top Ten Fun Facts
the Curé of Ars (1786-1859), known for 1. Hot water will turn into ice
his "tough love" approach to awakening faster than cold water.
people spiritually, said: "When people 2. The Mona Lisa has no
flatter you, they're probably lying. When eyebrows.
they criticize you, they're likely telling the 3. The sentence, "The quick
truth." brown fox jumps over the lazy
Famous for his clairvoyant knowing of dog" uses every letter in the
people's inmost hearts while hearing them English language.
confess their sins in the confessional, he told one woman 4. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English
that she gossiped least in February because it is three days language.
shorter than other months. 5. Coca-Cola was originally green.
He also wrote: "The saints did not all begin well, but they 6. When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh
all ended well. We have begun badly; let us end well, and slightly less.
we shall go one day and all meet in Heaven." 7. There are only two words in the English language that
have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
Snow laughing matter! 8. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using
It is often said that the Inuit the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
have 50 different words for 9. Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40
snow but according to a study degrees Fahrenheit.
by the University of Glasgow 10. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
Scotland has more than 400
words and expressions for
snow. Academics have officially Reading Between the Headlines
logged 421 terms - including
"snaw" (snow), "sneesl" (to First microbes breathed sulfur (sulphur) before it was cool
begin to rain or snow) and "skelf" (a large snowflake) in a Washington Post
project to compile a Scots thesaurus. Stolen prosthetic arm discovered in a second-hand shop
Just a few examples: Daily Echo, England
feefle - to swirl “Now hiring,” read the classified ad. “Cemetery
flindrikin - a slight snow shower superintendent. The ideal candidate must be able to
snaw-pouther - fine driving snow supervise in a fast-paced environment.” A. S., via Internet
spitters - small drops or flakes of wind-driven rain or snow Statistics show teen pregnancy drops off significantly
unbrak - the beginning of a thaw after age 25 New York Post
Sun is too round, say scientists The Independent
Catastrophe! Pair banned from all-you-can-eat restaurant for eating
A woman answered the doorbell too much Telegraph
with a man standing on her porch. One-armed man applauds the kindness of strangers
The man said, "I'm terribly sorry. I Tulsa World
just ran over your cat and I would Motorcyle deaths drop, but trend is worrisome Yahoo.
like to replace it for you." The woman com
replied, "Well that's all right with me, Missing Woman Unwittingly Joins Search Party Looking
but how are you at catching mice?" for Herself —Source: Toronto Sun
Angry Nepali Man Bites Cobra to Death in Revenge Attack
—Source: MSNBC
En route to church to make his first confession, my nervous Teacher Strikes Idle Kids
seven-year-old grandson asked me what he could expect.
"Confession is where you tell all the bad things you've done —Source: Timothy Haas in Boseman Daily Chronicle
to the priest," I told him. He looked relieved. "Good. I haven't
done anything bad to the priest."

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