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# There is a city called Rome on every continent.
# It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
# Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
# Horatio Nelson, one of England’s most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
# The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London.
# Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
# Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
# The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!
# One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
# Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!

# The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man.
# Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
# Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
# The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
# Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
# Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
# Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
# Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”

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Cute Ros. "* Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon (almost makes me want to eat a worm!)." I stick with apples, pine nuts and bacon. I cannot imagine making pesto sauce and using wasps. How about a beetle pie? Is it as American as the real thing? And of course there's the eggs over easy with a side of worms. Thanks for the laugh Ros.

There are only three words in the English language that begin with DW. Dwarf, Dwell, Dwindle. Okay there is dweeb if you want to include slang.

I don't think the one about the word Rhythm is correct. Sometimes a "Y" is a vowel.

The letter Y is a vowel or a consonant! In terms of sound, a vowel is 'a speech sound which is produced by comparatively open configuration of the vocal tract, with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction...', while a consonant is 'a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed' (definitions from the New Oxford Dictionary of English, 1998). The letter Y can be used to represent different sounds in different words, and can therefore fit either definition. In myth or hymn it is clearly a vowel, and also in words such as my, where it stands for a diphthong (a combination of two vowel sounds). On the other hand, in a word like beyond there is an obstacle to the breath which can be heard between two vowels, and the same sound begins words like young and yes. (This consonant sound, like that of the letter W, is sometimes called a 'semivowel' because it is made in a similar way to a vowel, but functions in contrast to vowels when used in words.) Whether the letter Y is a vowel or a consonant is therefore rather an arbitrary decision. The letter is probably more often used as a vowel, but in this role is often interchangeable with the letter I. However, the consonant sound is not consistently represented in English spelling by any other letter, and perhaps for this reason Y tends traditionally to be counted among the consonants.

At the cost of food these days I might have to go a-hunting for beetles and worms.