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Sorry I haven’t posted in a while, I don’t want you to think I’m forgetting about all of you.

Here is another 20 facts that I want to share with you.

• Tirana, the capital of Albania has a lot of things in common with other European capitals – except one.  It’s one of two capitals without a McDonalds. The second is Vatican City.
• Joe Arridy had an IQ of 46 and is known as the “happiest prisoner on death row”. He went into the gas chamber with a smile. It turned out he was innocent.
• Stephen Hawking held a reception for time traveler in 2009, however he didn’t publicise it until after. This way, only people who time travel could attend, nobody else attended.
• Violin bows are made from horse hair.
• There are less than 30 ships in the Royal Canadian Navy which is less than most third-world countries.
• Larry the Cable Guy’s real name is Daniel Lawrence Whitney. His Southern accent is fake, he was born and raised in the Mid-West, not the South.
• The youngest Pope in history was Pope Benedict IX he was 11 years old when he got elected. He is the only person to have been the Pope more than once.
• In Svalbard, a remote Norwegian island, it is illegal to die. This is because bodies are unable to be buried safely due to the permafrost on the ground. If you are about to die, they fly you back to mainland Norway to pass on there.
• Gennaro Pelliccia was employed by Costa Coffee as a coffee taster, he had his tongue insured for £10 million since 2009.
• Johnny Cash took three singing lessons before his teacher advised him to stop taking lessons and to never deviate from his natural voice.
• The U.S. Government allowed Whiskey to be sold through pharmacies during the Prohibition era. Walgreens grew from 20 retail stores to almost 400.
• People who post their fitness routine to Facebook are more likely to have psychological problems.
• Chastity belts are a myth. A big majority of examples now existing were made in the 18^th and 19^th centuries as jokes.
• Millionaires with $1 million isn’t considered wealthy anymore by most Americans. Now, the typical American sees at least $2.4 million as wealthy.
• The Flintstones was the first ever animated show to air during primetime.
• In 1325, two Italian city states fought over a bucket which resulted in 2,000 deaths. It started when two soldiers stole a bucket from a well from the city center.
• There’s no period in “Dr. Pepper”. It was removed because the old logo font made it look like “Di: Pepper”.
• There is an underwater version of rugby, it is called “underwater rugby”.
• Standing around burns calories. On average, a 150 pound person burns 114 calories per hour while standing and doing nothing.
• GPS costs $2 million per day to operate. The money comes from American tax revenue.

I hope you guys enjoyed these interesting facts. I will be sharing some more facts with you tomorrow.

I hope you all had an amazing week and an even better Sunday and hopefully we can get out of this lockdown soon.

Hey everybody

Here are 20 more facts that I have decided to share with all of you. I hope you are all loving these facts that I am sharing with you.

• A polish doctor faked a typhus outbreak, in order to keep the Nazi’s away. This saved 8,000 people.
• Caller ID usage tripled in the United States, after the release of the 1996 film called Scream, this involved an anonymous killer calling and murdering his victims.
• The Ancient Greeks invented the spiked dog collar to protect their dogs from wolf attacks.
• Jack Daniel died from kicking a safe. When he kicked it, his toe broke and got infected. He then died from blood poisoning.
• There is a boss in Metal Gear Solid 3 that can be defeated by not playing the game for a week, or by changing the date.
• The Roman, Persian wars are the longest in history, lasting over 680 years.
• Elton John tried to commit suicide once by sticking his head in an oven with the gas on low and windows open. He was found and stopped by his best friend Bernie Taupin.
• If you translate “Jesus” from Hebrew to English, the correct translation is “Joshua”. The name “Jesus” comes from translating the name from Hebrew, to Greek, to Latin, to English.
• Ed Sheeran bought a ticket to LA with no contacts. He was spotted by Jamie Foxx, who offered him the use of his recording studio and a bed in his Hollywood home for six weeks.
• German Chocolate Cake is named after an American baker named Samuel German.
• The first service animals were established in Germany during World War I.
• An 11 year girl suggested the name for Pluto after the Roman god of the Underworld.
• The voice actor of SpongeBob and the voice actor of Karen, Plankton’s computer wife, have been married since 1995.
• Over the course of 7 years, an Italian baker named Gilberto Baschiera secretly diverted 1 million Euros to poorer clients from the wealthy ones so they could qualify for loans. He made no profit and avoided jail in 2018 due to a plea bargain.
• Octopuses and squids have beaks. The beak is made of keratin, the same material that a bird’s beak, and our fingernails are made of.
• An estimated 50% of all gold ever mined on Earth came from a single plateau in South Africa: Witwatersrand.
• 75% of the world’s diet is produced from just 12 plant and five different animal species.
• The original Star Wars premiered on just 32 screens across the U.S. in 1977. This was to produce buzz as the release widened to more theatres.
• The slogan “Keep Calm and Carry On”, was invented by the British Government during World War 2 in order to motivate people to stay strong.
• Apple paid a couple 1.7 million dollars for their plot of land, which was only worth 181,700 dollars.

I hope you enjoy this comic I have added to this post to brighten up your day.

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Here is another 10 interesting facts that I have just learnt now, maybe you will all benefit from learning these facts.

• African elephants have been advancing without tusks in order to protect themselves from poachers, this unfortunately almost hurts their species.
• Myrmecophaga Tridactyla is the scientific name for a Giant Anteater. This means “Ant eating with three fingers”.
• Originally, cigarette filters were made out of cork, the look of which was incorporated into today’s pattern.
• In 1923, a jockey suffered a fatal heart attack but his horse finished and won the race, making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death.
• When a baby panda is born, it is smaller than a mouse.
• Iceland doesn’t have a railway system.
• The largest known prime number has 17,425,170 digits. The new prime number is 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, minus 1.
• An art dealer and author named Forest Fenn, his a treasure chest in the Rocky Mountains worth more than 1 million dollars. It still has not been found.
• The lead singer of The Offspring started attending school to achieve a doctorate in molecular biology while still in the band. He graduated in May 2017.
• A 15 year old from New Zealand built the largest grand piano in the world.

I hope you enjoyed these facts and learnt a lot from this post. I hope you have also had an awesome Monday, I know I have.

Take a look at my next blog post tomorrow, I will be sharing some more interesting facts that I learnt.

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I found these 20 random facts that I thought looked very interesting.

• The scientific term for brain freeze is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia”.
• Canadians use the word “sorry” so many times that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.
• When dinosaurs still existed, there used to be volcano eruptions on the moon.
• J is the only letter of the alphabet that doesn’t appear on the periodic table.
• One habit of intelligent humans is being easily annoyed by people around them, but saying nothing in order to avoid a meaningless argument.
• If a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Bear mate, their baby will be known as a “Pizzy Bear”.
• In 2006 an employee of Coca-Cola offered to sell Coca-Cola secrets to Pepsi. Pepsi responded by informing Coca-Cola.
• There were two AI chatbots created by Facebook to talk to each other, but they were shut down after they started communicating in a language they made for themselves.
• In 2010, Nintendo trademark the phrase “Its On Like Donkey Kong”.
• Calling “shotgun” when riding in a car comes from the term “shotgun messenger”.
• The famous line in Titanic from Leonardo DiCaprio, “I’m king of the world!” was improvised.
• A strand of Spaghetti is called a “Spaghetto”.
• There is a difference between coffins and caskets. Coffins are tapered and six sided, whereas caskets are rectangular.
• Sunflowers help to clean radioactive soil. Japan uses this to rehabilitate Fukashima. Almost 10,000 packets of sunflower seeds have been sold to the people of the city.
• To leave a party and not tell anyone is called a “French Exit”.
• In Arizona, if you cut down a cactus, you will be penalized up to 25 years in jail. It is similar to cutting down a protected tree species.
• The Buddha depicted in statues and pictures is very different from the actual person. The Buddha was actually skinny because of self-deprivation.
• In Colorado, USA, there is still an active volcano. It last erupted about the same time as the pyramids were being built in Egypt.
• Snow White and The 7 Dwarfs was the first movie to put out a motion-picture soundtrack.
• If you point your car keys to your head, it increases the remote’s signal range.

I hope you enjoyed these facts and the comic strip that I added. I will be sharing some more tomorrow.

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I hope you guys enjoy this post just as much as I enjoyed making it. If you had a bad day then hopefully this will make it better.

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I hope all the father’s had an amazing day filled with love and joy. To me, a dad is every girls own personal superman, a man they can look up to, take advice from and to be their ultimate protector. I know that my dad is definitely my ultimate protector.

My mom, my dad and I started the day off by going to the shops to get supplies for the Father’s Day lunch. My dad made some boerie rolls on the braai and after we had that delicious cupcakes afterwards, and lets not forget the glasses of wine that were going around. As we always do, we ended the braai with a cup of coffee and all my dads chocolates.

What did you guys do to celebrate today?

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I was searching the internet to learn new things. I came across 20 facts about love, I thought they were just so good and interesting that I decided to share them with you.

• Monogamous relationships exist throughout the animal kingdom
• Sometimes it can take up to 4 minutes to tell if you like someone or not
• When two lovers gaze into each others eyes, their heart rates synchronise
• Falling in love has neurological effects similar to those of cocaine
• Cuddling releases natural painkillers
• Looking at a picture of a loved one relieves pain
• People of the same attractiveness are more likely to end up together
• People who are too similar are not likely to last
• Heartbreak isn’t just a metaphor
• Romantic love eventually ends, only to be followed by committed love
• People who are in love have chemical similarities with OCD people
• Thinking of love and sex influence creativity and concrete thinking respectively
• Attachment+caring+intimacy=perfect love
• An attractive face if preferred over an attractive body for long term relationships
• Holding a loved once hand relieves pain and stress
• Expressing gratitude towards people you love causes an immediate spike in your happiness
• Butterflies in the stomach are real and they’re actually caused by adrenaline
• Dilated pupils show your attraction to somebody and makes you more attractive
• Looking into each others eyes can make strangers fall in love
• Love is really all that matters

I hope these facts brightened up your day and made you forget all about the icy cold weather.

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So I was researching interesting facts about animals today, and I found them so interesting that I decided to share them with you guys.

So here it goes:

• The heart of a shrimp is located in its head
• A snail can sleep for 3 years
• The fingerprints of a Koala are so Indistinguishable from human that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene
• Slugs have four noses
• Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump
• A Rhino’s horn is made of hair
• It is possible to hypnotise a frog by placing it on its back and gently stroking it stomach
• It takes a sloth 2 weeks to digest its food
• Nearly 3 percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime
• Bats always turn left when leaving a cave
• Giraffes have no vocal cord
• Kangaroos cannot fart
• An Ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain
• around 50 percent of Orangutangs have fractured bones, due to falling out of trees on a regular basis.
• Frogs cannot vomit. If one absolutely has to, then it will vomit its entire stomach

Now I don’t know about you guys, but I thought some of those facts were actually pretty interesting and also a little funny. Let me know what you guys think.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

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Sorry it has taken me so long to write to you. I hope you all had an excellent Tuesday, I know I definitely did.

I have started learning about Reiki again and I would love to share some of it with you, because I think it is the most beautiful and interesting way of healing your mind, body and soul. Now I would love to explain every single thing about Reiki, however there is unfortunately not enough time , so for today I will be focusing on the 6 benefits of Reiki.

• Transformative – This leads to lift- changing shifts in your mindset. It reveals your authentic self and purpose and it helps create a more abundant life.
• Creates Balance- This tunes into energy on a quantum level. It harmonises physical, mental, emotional and spiritual layers of your being.
• Supports Well Being and Healing- This clears blockages and removes unwanted energy so that you feel renewed, centred, and more resilient, and also helps to relieve pain.
• Safe and Complementary- Reiki is non-intrusive and can be used alongside conventional medicine and other therapies to relieve side effects and promote recovery.
• Deepens Intuition- This can be adapted to any situation, challenge, or problem. This enriches everyday life and relationships.
• Daily Self-Care- This provides deep relaxation and better quality sleep. Relieves stress anxiety, and increases mental vitality and clarity.

So those were all of the benefits of using Reiki. I hope you enjoyed learning with me and I will most definitely be making a Reiki post again.

I will now end with a quote from the greater of Reiki Mr Mikao Usui: “Just for today, do not worry. Just for today, do not anger. Honor your parents, teachers and elders. Earn your living honestly. Show gratitude to everything”.

If there is light in the soul, there is beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there is harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace on earth.

Feng Shui is about purifying the circulation in the air in your home and especially in your bedroom and workspace. Clearing and un-cluttering the space around you, strategically positioning your furniture, ornaments and plants to create balance and the free flow of energy is an essential part of Feng Shui as well as burning medical plants. This is a very effective way to treat infections, especially infections in your lungs, brain and skin. It also releases negative ions, that have been linked with states of harmony, balance and happiness.

I have been getting a lot of headaches lately and I haven’t really been sleeping well. So in order to get good Feng Shui in my bedroom, I am going to declutter my room so that it feels more open. I will also be removing my TV and other electrical appliances from my bedroom in order to get a good nights sleep and finally get rid of my headaches.