No one has ever made a truly definitive count of the number of the world’s languages, though the generally accepted estimate is 2,700. India probably has the most with more than 1,600 languages and dialects. The rarest known is Oubykh, a highly complex Caucasian language with 82 consonants but only three vowels. It was once [...]
May 17, 2008
Categories: Bits and Pieces . Tags: answer, knowledge, language, trivia, world history . Author: malembe . Comments: Leave a Comment
If you are ask how many children Adam and Eve had, with all possible haste you would answer,
“Two, of course – Cain and Abel”.
Actually Adam and Eve had a third son, Seth. And those who really read the Bible well know that Adam fathered an additional unspecified number of “sons and daughters”.
BTW – The average [...]
May 14, 2008
Categories: Bits and Pieces . Tags: Bible, family, knowledge, pinoy, trivia . Author: malembe . Comments: Leave a Comment
Recently I read from a trivia book and it said there that in a dying person, the sense of smell is the first to go while the last to go is the sense of hearing.
The term used for the fear of dying is thanatophobia.
Dying is inevitable but the question remains, are you ready to die? [...]
May 1, 2008
Categories: Bits and Pieces . Tags: Do you hear me?, knowledge, trivia . Author: malembe . Comments: 2 Comments