Knowledge Abundance

"I'm not upset that your lamb followed you to school, but I would like to know how he got a better grade than you, and what's with the stovepipe hat? Can't you just wear a baseball cap like the other kids?" these are the questions you would like to avoid from your mother. With this in mind, the importance of reading becomes intrinsic, at least it became for me when I was younger. I decided to go to the library and one of the things I learnt was, Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal". William Jefferson Clinton is the 2nd. Am not sure I picked that from a primary school library but am sure I heard it somewhere am supposed to quote but can't really remember.

I also learnt that Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts, 30% of Chinese adults live with their parents and 200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day. That's not all though coz in the same class, I learnt that we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the bottom of the ocean, it takes a plastic container 50,000 years to start decomposing, bamboo can grow up to 36 inches a day, rain falls at 11 km/h and an average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.

These facts may seem irrelevant to you right now but in the real world, it's better to learn these things than acing your math test. How so you ask? If you are busy chatting up a woman trying to explain to her that the Schwarzschild radius is the distance from the middle of mass where in case pressure is applied, the escape speed and that of light are equal, and I just turned to her at the very exact moment where she's staring at the bartender to order a triple shot of tequila and…… "Relax, it's only ONES and ZEROS! By the way, did you know Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts?"

Am not saying it's what I do, but the importance of these facts is highly underrated. People learn this during the awkward silence moment where the two of you are just sitting there, normally on the first date trying to choose the appropriate words, or a funny joke and then you realize that all your funny jokes are either dirty or only your boys understand them. At that precise moment, you remember this stupid note which you easily assumed as a waste of your precious time as you would have managed to prove that the praying mantis is not the only insect which can turn its head 360 degrees, which is not possible to. You would later realize it would have being wiser of you to read this, and take it seriously as you would have found out that Dennis the Menace favorite drink is root beer.

With that in mind, and considering that you're my friends, the next piece of information is very important. You should know that in Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight" came from.  You should also know that more people celebrate their birthdays in August than in any other month. The two other months in which birthday rates are high are July and September. For family planning purposes, you should count back from the above mentioned months to see how active the corresponding month you were sexually.

Some sad news for the men, 57% of women would rather go on a shopping spree than have sex, nearly 6% of all marriage proposals are made over the telephone, and the world has been at peace only 8% of the time over the last 3,500 years.

A cool understandable fact, 35% of people watching T.V. yell at it. Am going to explain that we don't exactly start yelling, but if only the f***ing box would just explain what was bugging it, nobody would ever through the remote at it.

And finally, we shall never know the identity of the man who in 1976 made the most unsuccessful hijack attempt ever. On a flight across America, he rose from his seat, drew gun and took the stewardess hostage."Take me to Detroit," he demanded."We're already going to Detroit," she replied.

"Oh … good," he said, and sat down again.