Interesting Facts

-Cast iron skillets used to be the leading source of iron in the American diet!
-Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
-The first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
-Seaweed is used to thicken ice cream.
-The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
-In the state of Kentucky it is against the law to carry an ice cream in your back pocket. Old law.
-You cannot think of an English word to rhyme with the word month because there isn’t one.
-Snails can sleep for up to 3 years.
-X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.
-The human brain is insensitive to pain.


seaweed in ice cream : http://voices.yahoo.com/why-there-seaweed-ice-cream-2058304.html
     Explains that seaweed (carrageenan) is put into ice cream as a way to thicken it.

Mona Lisa x rays : http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070305185157AA4MSsG
     Explains how the Mona Lisa has at least 3 different versions of the same painting underneath.

Reading Response #1

Summary - The world ended via zombies and now everyone lives in little walled in towns, and the rest of the world is labelled the rot and ruin.

Quote - "Tom and Benny never talked about zombies. They had every reason to, but never did."
^ I chose that because it was interesting that they lived in a world ruled by zombies and never talked about zombies.

Picture - Is from a movie called The Road. Has a similar setting and it could very well be Tom and Benny in the picture.