It was Mark Twain who said "children tell all they know and
then stop."
One horsepower is the
amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one
second.
You can listen to thunder
after lightning and tell how close you came to getting hit.
If you don't hear it, you got hit, so never
mind.
When they broke open
molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But
when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with
explosions.
When people run around in
circles, we say they are crazy. When planets do it, we say
they are orbiting.
Most books now say our
sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a
sun in the daytime.
A vibration is a motion
that cannot make up it's mind which way it wants to
go.
Many dead animals of the
past changed into fossils; others preferred to be
oil.
Vacuums are nothing. We
only mention them to let them know we know they're
there.
Some people can tell what
time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able
to make out the numbers.
I'm not sure how clouds
are formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is
the important thing.
In making rainwater, it
takes everything from H to O.
Rain is saved up in cloud
banks.
It is so hot in some
parts of the world that the people there have to live in
other places.
A census taker is a man
who goes from house to house increasing the
population.
The future of 'I give' is
'I take.'
A virgin forest is a
forest where the hand of man has never set
foot.
The parts of speech are
lungs and air.
The inhabitants of Moscow
are called Mosquitoes.
Most of the houses in
France are made of plaster of Paris.
The spinal column is a
long bunch of bones. The head sits on the top and you sit on
the bottom.
We do not raise silk
worms in the US because we get our silk from rayon. He is a
larger worm and gives more silk.
One of the main causes of
dust is janitors.
A scout obeys all to whom
obedience is due and respects all duly constipated
authorities.
One by product of raising
cattle is calves.
The four seasons are
salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.
The word trousers is an
uncommon word because it is singular at the top and plural
at the bottom.
Syntax is all the money
collected at the church from sinners.
The blood circulated
through the body flowing down one leg and up the
other.
In the spring, salmon
swim upstream to spoon.
Proof enough, when you
want a decent explanation, just ask a child!