Peculiar, Curious Facts

[New World Explorer]

Ok,  I will start: ☺️

 

It takes 72 muscles to speak one word. 

 

Edited December 16, 2022 by New World Explorer

[New World Explorer]

Another one: 

 

There is enough poison in a poison arrow frog to kill 2200 people. 

 

[New World Explorer]

A scallop has 35 eyes.

[New World Explorer]

By slowing their heart rates, sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes.

Dolphins need to come up for air after about ten minutes. 

[Tortuga]

8 minutes ago, New World Explorer said:

By slowing their heart rates, sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes.

Dolphins need to come up for air after about ten minutes. 

Cute. Is that a friend or relative?

[New World Explorer]

I did not explain properly a reason for this topic.

Let me fix this now.

I often meditate on peculiar or interesting facts, and utilise them in developing effective illustrations or comparisons.
For example: Illustration can be develop (or way of contrast) from a fact about scallop, which has 35 eyes.

Rhetorical question  can be asked: How many eyes 👀 Jehovah’s servants have? 
Then, we can go on and mention that apart from our physical eyes, Christians have more “eyes” so to speak. 
Which is spiritual eye, or spiritual sight, vision etc. 

After that we make a point we are driving. 

All those interesting facts can assist us in becoming more effective teachers. 
 

[New World Explorer]

Illustration from the fact about Sloth and a dolphin. 
A Sloth can survive without taking a breath for 40 min.

Dolphin needs to do it at least every 10 min. 
When it comes to our spiritual “breathing” or feeding. 

Do we want to be like a Sloth … merely surviving and partake spiritual food only when necessary?
No, we want to be like Dolphins, partaking spiritual food as often as possible. Nourish ourselves as often as possible. 
Holding a breath from spiritual activities in fact can be dangerous for us. 

[New World Explorer]

Illustration about Arrow Frog, can be easily adapted to our use of speech. 
Our tongue 😛 had ability to “kill” as well.

Many marriages and friendships were killed due to our inproper use of tongue.

etc…etc…etc. 

[Percy]

The Dance of Life at the molecular level. This is taken from this 1992 publication "Mapping the Next Millenium" found here for borrowing:

https://archive.org/details/mappingnextmille0000hall/page/230/mode/2up?view=theater

It is a fascinating look at early research into the genome and how it works through mapping. Describing how something works is not the same as why does it work.

 

 

This is the latest visualization which shows the incredible complexity of what happens in the human cell. If anybody imagines this came by chance, let them watch this video.

Percy