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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Fun stuff for Thursday Feb. 28, 2013



Human Body Facts:


Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.

Enamel is the hardest substance in the human body.

Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.

Adult human bones account for 14% of the body’s total weight.

1 in 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.

Your thigh bone (Femur) is stronger than concrete.

In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year.


Word of the Day:


~Dilly-dally~

DEFINITION:  (verb) to waste time, especially in indecision; dawdle or vacillate.
Synonyms: drag one’s feet, procrastinate, stall, shilly-shally.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
~Confucius

To understand everything is to forgive everything.
~Buddha 

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
~Confucius

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
~Buddha

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order; we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
~Confucius

If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
~Buddha

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
~Confucius