Did you know…

• We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints get compressed during the day.• Marilyn Monroe (first lady of President JOHN F.KENNEDY) had six toes on one foot.• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white • Chewing gum while peeling onions will reduce your tears.• Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age. • Red wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles • A novel with 50,000 words, non of which contained the letter ‘E’ was written by Ernest Wright. • The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double letter combinations is; Bookkeeper. • A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years. • An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.• Cleopatra married two of her brothers. • It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 O’clock. That’s how apple computers derived their name.• In Japanese, the word for “wrong” and “different” is the same. Friday James is a S6 student at Lycee De Kigali Secondary School Contact: jamiefrings@yahoo.com