I had a recent conversation with my mom during which she and I chatted about my blog. She reads it daily, and I admitted to her that there are times I simply cannot conjure an ounce of inspiration for a post idea and resort to what I call cheater posts. When I am in the deepest trenches of creative absence, I will somewhat cheat in the sense that I won’t write an entire post myself; rather, I will sprinkle my bits throughout and use information on a topic to fill the rest. I do recognize, however, that there are posts that require quote excerpts, so those are exempted from my own criteria on the matter. Additionally, I try not to go over 300 words in a post to refrain from losing anyone’s interest, so when I do a cheat post, I consider it that because I’m not writing the 300 words or so myself.
Today happens to be a day that was honestly shit, so I am picking random facts for today’s cheater post. Granted, it is still interesting and educational, so it isn’t too much of a moral debate for me this time around. This information comes from rd.com.
“Fact: The world’s oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5,000 years – Talk about one old tourist attraction! This wheel was found in 2002, approximately 12 miles south of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, and is now housed in the city’s museum. Radiocarbon dating was used to determine the wheel’s age, which is somewhere between 5,100 and 5,350 years old.
“Fact: Sudan has more pyramids than any country in the world – What is … a totally strange Jeopardy! question about geography? Not only have archaeologists found more pyramids in Sudan than Egypt, but the numbers aren’t even close. While somewhere around 100 pyramids have been discovered in Egypt (some sources put the number at 118), the number of those found in Sudan is around 255—more than double.
“Fact: The bumblebee bat is the world’s smallest flying mammal – Weighing in at 0.05 to 0.07 ounces, with a head-to-body length of 1.14 to 1.29 inches and a wingspan of 5.1 to 5.7 inches, the bumblebee bat—also known as Kitti’s hog-nosed bat—is the smallest flying mammal (aka the smallest bat, since those are the only mammals that truly fly) in the world, according to Guinness World Records. Many consider the bumblebee bat to be the smallest mammal overall, but its weight overlaps a bit with another of Earth’s tiniest creatures, the Etruscan shrew. To see this tiny bat for yourself, you’d have to visit one of a select few limestone caves on the Khwae Noi River in the Kanchanaburi Province of southwest Thailand,” the web page states.
Check back tomorrow for more riveting and random facts.
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