Hooked On Facts:

Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made of grass.

Every workday, 6.7 million people commute to Manhattan!

The ‘King Ranch’ in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.

Crayola is a French word that means ‘Oily chalk.’

In 1659, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts.

More than 100 pizza box-related patents have been issued since 1976!

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Just Joking:

Bless Your heart:

The teacher told her students they would start their day with the Pledge of Allegiance, instructing them to place their right hand over their heart and repeat after her. As she began to recite the Pledge, she looked around the room and noticed that Little Johnny hand his hand over the right cheek of his behind.

“Little Johnny,” she said, “we will not continue until you place your hand over your heart.”

“It is over my heart,” Little Johnny replied innocently.

She attempted to get Little Johnny to place his hand over his heart several times, all to no avail. Finally, frustrated, she asked, “What makes you think that’s your heart?”

“Well, whenever Grandma comes to visit,” Johnny explained, “she picks me up, gives me a couple of pats right here, and says, ‘Bless your little heart,’ and I know Grandma wouldn’t lie.”

Stamped:

A man and his wife were making their first doctor visit, the wife being pregnant with their first child. After everything checked out, the doctor took a small stamp and stamped the wife’s stomach with indelible ink.

The couple was curious about what the stamp read, so when they got home, the husband got out his magnifying glass to try to see what it was.

In very tiny letters, the stamp said, “When you can read this, come back and see me.”

Take Your Medicine:

A man limped into a hospital to have his foot X-rayed, and was asked to wait for the results. Some time later an orderly appeared and handed the man a large pill. Just then a mother with a small child in need of immediate attention entered.

After the orderly disappeared with the new patient, the man hobbled over to get a glass of water, swallowed the pill, and sat down to wait. Moments later the orderly reappeared carrying a bucket of water.

“Okay,” he said, “Just drop the pill in this bucket and soak your foot for a while.”

Educators:

According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington was faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.

Every night, the maintenance man would remove them and the next day, the girls would put them back. Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night.

To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required. He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it. Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.

There are teachers, and then there are educators...