Louise Carroll: Sharing thoughts of the world

We all have so much input every day ― the world around us and the media. We just can't take it all in, but there are bits and pieces of it that I put in a file ― just because that's what I do. But I can't leave them there, so I share them with you.

• While watching Jeff Foxworthy on Netflix I had a revelation. I am Jeff Foxworthy's mother. He said, "My mother can't see, can't hear and she has the balance of Ron White after midnight."

• This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before." — Maya Angelou, poet.

• A little tidbit from before 1919 when women were fighting for the right to vote. It's a drawing of a cute little girl in dress, socks and Mary Janes. If that is before your time Mary Janes were black shoes with rounded toes and a strap. The card said, "And you think you can keep women silent politically. IT CAN BE DID!" (The caps are theirs, not mine).

• I just learned that Dr. Seuss coined the word nerd. He created it in his 1950 book, "If I Ran the Zoo." "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo, And bring back an It-Kutch, a PREEP and a PROO, a NERKLE, a NERD and a Seersucker, too."

• "Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday." — Thornton Wilder, writer, 1897-1975.

• Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.

• New Zealand is the only country that contains every type of climate in the world.

• "When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him." — Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist, 1912-87.

• For the first time in over three decades, the French Bulldog was named the most popular dog breed in America. I told my daughter and she said she already knew that. She has two of them.

• "Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien." — Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate, 1879-1955.

• Space waste can spin in orbit for centuries so long as it is above the Earth's atmosphere. So far the biggest and oldest surviving man-made debris is a piece of the American Vanguard I launched in 1958. We not only pollute the Earth we are working on outer space.

• President Andrew Jackson started a gunfight in the streets of Nashville. Technically the other guy was the first to pull out a gun. All because Jackson was chasing him with a whip. From the "Hottest Heads of State" by J.D. and Kate Dobson.

• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. I'm curious about who tried it and why.

• Taz's birthday is June 19. I'm a Taz fan.

• "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it." — Edith Sitwell, poet, 1887-1964.

• The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

• In Chinese, the idiom for a fight among brothers is "burning beanstalks to cook beans."

• "Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me; I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved." — Will Rogers, humorist.

• 50% of all Americans live within 50 miles of where they grew up. I'm one of them.

• Flies are not able to hear any sounds at all.

• (Reader discretion is advised) The most expensive coffee in the world is Eopi Luwa, made from coffee beans that have been excreted by animals called civets. (I warned you).

• "As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe." — Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet and dramatist, 1759-1805.

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