28 July 2018

A 142-nation safety survey ranks Venezuela last. Rwandans feel safer than Canuks. 

Zucchini is the only fruit that starts with the letter ‘Z’.

A barrel of oil contains 159 litres. The US consumes 1.85 billion barrels a day.

The largest olive is the donkey variety; the smallest type is called ‘the bullet’.

When he finally cracked, Humpty Dumpty splashed 7 grams of protein.

Polish Buddhists practise 16th Century ‘Three Lights Meditation’ in more than 40 cities.

Coal supplies power to 40% of Americans. 

Skeeters kill 750,000 annually. Humans rank second, killing 432,000 people a year.

Humpty Dumpty is Boule Boule in French and Lille Trille in Norwegian and Swedish.

Confuse coal miners by showing them two shovels and then telling them to take their pick.

Sumatran Rhinoceri, of which 275 are estimated to be alive, is the only rhino with two horns.

Britons burn three trillion litres of peat a year, sourced from the Baltic States and Ireland.

The nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty is a single quatrain with a trochaic metre.

Only 2% of the 700+ islands in  the Caribbean Archipelago are inhabited.

Cows wear bells because their horns don’t work. 

In 1762, the world’s first veterinary college was established in Lyon, France.

92.9% of Ethiopians rely on wood as their primary fuel source.

A tuktuk ride in Bangkok costs 30 baht. 

In the 1700s, humpty dumpty was a beverage made by mixing hot brandy with ale. 

Children who work in coal mines may not be minors. 

Food for Thought: With love we are creative. With it, we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone are we able to sacrifice for others. ~Chief Dan George