Quote of the day 9th January

"In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail."
Anonymous

Facts of the day: 9th of January

1. The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 Megabytes
2. Sixteen percent fewer girls than boys reported ever talking to their parents about science and technology issues
3. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere
4. Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy
5. The first movie to use sound was "The Jazz Singer," released in 1927: the first words, spoken by Al Jolson, were: "Wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet."

Quote of the day 8th January

It is never too late to be what you might have been
-George Elliot

Facts of the day: 8th of January

1. The word "toy" comes from an old English word that means "tool."
2. Five thousandths of a millimeter is the tolerance of accuracy at the LEGO mould factories
3. A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs
4. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes
5. In Belgium, there is a museum just for strawberries

Quote of the day 7th January

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Facts of the day: 7th of January

1. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
2. Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined
3. 30% of Chinese adults live with their parents
4. "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you"
5. The original title of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice was First Impression

Quote of the day: 6th Jan

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
- Henry Ford

Quote of the day: 6th January

1) Hippo milk is pink
2) There are around 200 corpses on Mount Everest
3) Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa
4) Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a 'Friday the 13th'.
5) The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.

Quote of the day 5th January

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare

Facts of the day: 5th of January

1) Starfish do not have brains
2) Turtles can breathe through their anus
3 A snail can sleep for three years
4) 'Typewriter'is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard
5) Some lions mate over fifty times a day

Quote of the day 4th January

You haven't failed until you quit trying.
- Anonymous

Facts of the day: 4th of January

1) A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
2) According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying
3) To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly
4) The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan
5) The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.

Quote of the day 3rd January

"Every artist was first an amateur."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Facts of the day: 3rd of January

1.The word Eskimo literally means 'raw meat eater'
2.A lion's roar can be heard from more than five miles away
3.In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed
4.Some breed of chicken lay coloured eggs
5.There was no punctuation until the 15th century

Quote of the day 2nd January

"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value."
-Albert Einstein-

Facts of the day: 2nd of January

1) Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek
2) Eggplants aren`t vegtables they`re really fruits
3) There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States
4) It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.
5) It was illegal to sell E.T. dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces

Facts of the day: 1st of January

1.The amount of people who are shot dead in Japan in an entire years equals to the same amount as those who get shot in America in just one weekend

2. The first music video to be played when MTV first lauched in 1979 was "video killed the radio star- The buggles"

3.Antibiotics means "against life" in greek

4. It was only twenty nine years after basketball had been invented that someone thought of the idea to put a hole in the bottom of the basket. Before that people used to use a ladder to help get the ball out when someone scored.

5. Female Kangaroos have two vaginas

Quote of the day 1st January

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

-John Maxwell

Im baaAAAAaack!

Due to distractions in my life i was unable to keep this blog up to date, but its another day and another year and I have made it part of my new years resolution to start this blog up again! Wooo!

As part of my new years resolution i have a few tasks I have set myself for this blog:
1) to add five facts daily
2) to add an inspiraional quote (to keep you guys and girls on track and motivated to keep doing your new years resolutions)
3) to post an article weekly (hopefully this will be either every monday or truesday)

There we have it; these are my aims for this blog and so fingers crossed i keep it up. As a punishment for failing to do update this dailyi will force myself to post double the amount of content the next day aswell as add the daily quotes/facts that I miss.

Happy new year everyone, I wish you all the best of luck with your new years resolutions
-Mr.Generalist