FunFacts
• The Earth is 1,597,340 miles from where it was yesterday
• Air is not weightless
• This year, Americans will spend more than $500 million on products to control body odor
• Your brain stopped growing at age 4
• Mahatma Gandhi never won a Nobel Peace Prize
Source: various sources
Expanding Vocabulary
e•nig•ma [i nígm , e nígm] noun mystery: somebody or something that is not easily explained or understood.
ven•er•ate [vénne ráyt] respect somebody: to regard somebody with profound respect
Source: www.encarta.msn.com
Thought for the Day
“When we call on God, He bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.”
Elizabeth Charles
Roads in the USA
Would circle the globe 157 times; reach moon and back 8 times.
Featured in: September 2002
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