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I’m taking a break from my usual content to share some completely useless facts that I know, in hopes that it will distract me from the grief I am currently processing.

1. In my home state, in the town of Sulphur, it is legitimately illegal to curse on the telephone.
2. You’re taller in the morning than at night. We can thank gravity for that.
3. Woolly mammoths were still alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.
4. A day on Venus is longer than its year (i.e. its trip around the sun).
5. The smell of rain has a name: petrichor. And humans that detect it at incredibly low concentrations. Some scientists believe this was developed by our early ancestors because water was so crucial for survival.
6. There are several cases noted throughout history where people who had been declared dead were very much alive. This prompted the creation of “safety coffins,” equipped with bells so that groundskeepers could hear those live people if they woke up underground.
7. The city of Nineveh, which Biblical Jonah preached against, was so large and wealthy that many people were considered unconquerable. But in 612 B.C., the city suddenly fell, with little explanation as to why – just as the prophets had foretold.
8. We have already met most of the people we will ever meet in our lives.
9. Most people don’t realize when they experience a “last time.” The last bedtime story we hear. The last time we drive a certain car or pet a certain dog.
10. In 1872, the merchant ship Mary Celeste was found drifting in the Atlantic Ocean. The cargo was intact. The crew’s belongings were largely untouched. The ship was seaworthy. The captain, his wife, his daughter, and the entire crew had vanished. To this day, no one knows what actually happened.
11. The Babylonian king in Daniel’s time, Nebuchadnezzar II, was a real historical figure whose building projects were so extensive that inscriptions bearing his name have been found by the thousands.
12. The last execution by guillotine in France occurred in 1977—the same year the first Star Wars movie was released.
13. Your stomach gets a brand-new lining every few days. If it didn’t, it would digest itself.
14. Cows often develop best friends and show measurable stress when separated from them.
15. In ancient Rome, wealthy people sometimes hired professional mourners to cry dramatically at funerals.

And on that note, I don’t want a funeral – but if I did – I’d probably have to hire people to show up and cry.

Have a happy Tuesday.