Did You Know

The following are some “interesting facts.” All of them purport to be true even though you may wonder about the need to know them! So, with that in mind… did you know…

 The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow’s or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won’t open wide enough.
 If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on bottom more often.
 Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
 The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze solid.
 There is no Betty Rubble in Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
 In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head.
 In Indiana it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least thirty minutes after eating garlic.
 A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
 Polar bears are left-handed.
 A rhinoceros horn is actually made out of compacted hair.
 Donkeys kill more people annually than are killed in plane crashes.
 Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
 “Typewriter” is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on the top row of a keyboard.
 If the population of China were to walk by you single file, the line would never end because of their rate of reproduction.
 American Airlines saved $40,000.00 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
 You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.
 No president in the United States was an only child.
 The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime while they sleep.

Some of those “facts” elicit a giggle, some a shrug, and others a “yuck!” All of them are really useless bits of information, and yet they find a way to call for our attention. However, there is some information that we ought to pay more attention to. It is the Scripture. That’s the truth found in today’s verse. Listen to Peter as he writes to the early Christians. It is a message for us today also.

And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:19-21 ESV).

Don’t neglect your reading of the Bible each day. It is the only source of true knowledge for happiness and joy!