Hemmingway rewrote one page of a book 39 times! Edison's first light bulb burned for 45 hours. The Everglades swamp covers 4,000 square miles. Reality is life's way of telling you the score. A quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog. Fish crossed with an elephant? (swimming trunks) Learn to say kind things; nobody resents them! Shopping carts easily attain speeds of $50/hour. A person's mind may be broad but have no depth! In 1870 it took a train 8 days to cross the U.S. Queen Anne of England outlived her 17 children. A zebu is an oxlike animal about 5 1/2 ft. tall. Sound travels 5,000 ft. per second through water. George Orwell (Eric Blair) wrote "1984" in 1948. Practical jokers can drive nervous people crazy! Barnum & Bailey joined the Ringling Bros. Circus. The U.S. $1 bill measures 2 5/8 by 6 1/8 inches. Credit-card interest accumulates at 21% a year. The gallant firemen extinguished the blazing fire. You must be of sound mind to make a crazy quilt. Was Jack Sprat's wife expelled by Weightwatchers? The Eskimo's kayak was capsized by killer whales. The Grand Prix: an exacting and risky racecourse! The novices quixotically exaggerated squid's size.
