Some Post-Election Silliness
Good Greens
One serving of kale has 1180% of the daily recommended value of Vitamin K. Vitamin K is named after the German word koagulation, which means "blood clotting," because it plays an important role in the regulation of blood clots.
Marvelous Meltdown
The microwave was invented by accident when engineer Percy Spencer walked by a radar set and the candy bar in his pocket melted. The first food cooked by a microwave on purpose was popcorn.
Waste Not...
40% of all food in America ends up in landfills instead of stomachs. That averages out to about 20 pounds per person every month.
Move Over, Elephant...
Dolphins have the longest memory among non-human animals and can recognize the whistles of familiar dolphins after having been separated for 20 years.
Hold the Burger!
Crickets have twice the amount of protein ounce for ounce than beef and three times the amount of iron.
And he probably needs it; or pehaps not
Alcohol is prohibited in the British Parliament with one exception: the chancellor can drink while delivering the annual budget statement.
On average, every person older than 15 in colonial America drank the equivalent of 7 shots of alcohol per day.
Bottoms Up!
Many historians believe the custom of clinking glasses and saying "Cheers!" or "To health!" originated in the Middle Ages. Because poisoning one's foes was so common in the Middle Ages, people would often take some wine from their cup and pour it into the cup of whomever they were sharing a drink with, ensuring that if one glass had been poisoned, both would be. The glasses would often clink together during this process.
As time went on and people became less concerned with poisoning, the custom of pouring wine from one glass into the other died away, but the tradition of clinking glasses together and reciting the salutation stuck around.
In Praise of the Grape
Americans consume the most wine on Thanksgiving Day, more than any other day of the year.
Vatican city has the highest per capita wine consumption in the entire world, according to the Wine Institute.
A glass of wine has roughly one cluster, or 75 grapes, in it. A bottle of wine has four clusters, which comes out to about 2 1/2 pounds of grapes.
What's the Buzz?
All worker bees are female and so is the queen. Drone being drone bees are male and don't have a stinger.
Bees have two stomachs: one for eating and one for storing nectar.
The average honeybee will make 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.
Bees use their honeycomb cells to raise their offspring in and to store nectar, honey, pollen, and water.
Hurray for Ruth!
The chocolate chip cookie was invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield in the mid-1930s. She owned the Toll House Inn, a popular restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts. Wakefield claims to have invented the chocolate chip cookie while riffing on a classic butterscotch nut cookie recipe. To this day, every bag of Nestle chocolate chips sold in North America has her original recipe on it.
Words For Us
1. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." Thomas A. Edison
2. "Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity." Albert Einstein
3. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." Eleanor Roosevelt
4. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." Helen Keller
5. "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." Theodore Roosevelt
6. "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." Henry David Thoreau
7. "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." Epictetus
8. "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." Maya Angelou
9. "Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." Tony Robbins
10. "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. "Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." Thomas Jefferson
12. "Well done is better than well said." Benjamin Franklin
13. "If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it." Paulo Coelho
14. "If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." Dale Carnegie
15. "Go for it now. The future is promised to no one." Wayne Dyer
16. "The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor." Vince Lombardi
17. "Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it." Lou Holtz
