Scientists now guess that there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth. They are sure, there are more atoms in a grain of sand than there are grains of sand on the earth. Personally, I don't believe them - I'm going to check this one. Well, I've been counting and came up with 43 quintillion.
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Sloths are not only a very slow moving animal with an extremely slow metabolism, but it can take as long as a month for one of them to digest a meal. Not much like a human baby.
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I heard that chocolate chip cookies were invented in 1938. Thank Goodness I wasn't born before that.
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Satchel Paige, a great pitcher, made his Major League debut with the Cleveland Indians in 1948. He was 42 years old. Sadly, he was not allowed to play in the big leagues until Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers broke the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson the year before.
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New word for today. Check out this sentence.
"Divers divers, averse to diverse dangers, refused to aid in the search."
'Divers' is not only the plural of diver but an adjective meaning "some unknown number more than one."
It was news to me; how about you?
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