Today Is World Tedium Day

To relieve it, I have gathered together some funny and/or interesting stuff.  You can thank me by reciprocating in the comments with your own funny or interesting stuff.

• Children are a great comfort in your old age — and they help you reach it faster, too.   Lionel Kauffman.
• One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.   Erma Bombeck.
• Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.  Sam Levenson.

• The longest war in history was between The Netherlands and The Scilly Isles.  It ended in 1986 after 335 years.
• Peanuts are an ingredient of dynamite.
• A sneeze travels at over 100mph.
• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
• The names of the continents start and end with the same letter.
• You cannot lick your elbow (yes, I know it’s an old one but I promised you dull stuff).
• When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
• The only word in the English language to end in ‘mt’ is ‘dreamt’.
• People laugh on average thirteen times a day.
• The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
• Polar bears are left-handed.
• Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace.
• Babies are born without kneecaps.

This post first appeared three years ago.  Fact.