Strange but true!
- The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
- In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
- There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
- About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
- More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
- A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
- Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breath!
WEIRD!
History Quotes
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
-Gerda Lerner
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-Robert F. Kennedy
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