Didja Know?…

Posted by Paul Reynolds on Dec 24, 2023 in Blog, Inspired Readings, Western Insight | Comments Off on Didja Know?…

• Rising rates of intermarriage are helping to dissipate ethnic and religious
  strife worldwide

• Death rates from cancer are shrinking.

•  The birth rate among teenage mothers is the lowest it has been in six decades.

• Acreage devoted to organic farming is increasing rapidly.

• Levels of literacy and education and political freedom are steadily growing
  all over the world.

•  If forced to decide between having a bigger penis and living in a world
  where there was no war, 90 percent of all men would pick universal
  peace.

•  The rivers and bays of New York City are reborn, having been cleansed of raw sewage and industrial pollution in recent years.

•  You have at least a million relatives as close as tenth cousin, and no one on Earth is any farther removed than your 50th cousin.
•  With every dawn, when first light penetrates the sea, many seahorse colonies perform a dance to the sun.
•  With each breath, you take into your body 10 sextillion atoms, and –owing to the wind’s ceaseless circulation — over a year’s time you have intimate relations with oxygen molecules exhaled by every person alive, as well as by everyone who ever lived.
•  There are always so many fragments of spider legs floating in the air that you are constantly inhaling them wherever you go.
•  The world has become dramatically more peaceful since 1992. The number of wars, coup d’etats, and acts of genocide has declined by 40 percent. Weapons sales between countries have dropped 33 percent during the same time, and the number of refugees has diminished by 45
  percent.
•  An average cloud is the same weight as 100 elephants.
•  The average human life expectancy is 30 years more than it was a century ago, and is still climbing. Many scientists believe there is no absolute limit to the human life span.
•  Some Christians really do love their enemies, as Jesus recommended.
•  The five most beautiful words in the English language are luminous, crucible, melody, undulates, and gratitude.
•  In the next 24 hours, 200 million people will make love on this planet, as
  they do every day of every year.
• A river requires a million years to move a grain of sand 100 miles.—-Robert Breszny

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