Miscellania

1. A black hole, five billion times as big as the sun, is in the core of the galaxy Messier 87 (M-87).

2. The sun is racing through space at 43,200 miples per hour.\

3. Time as no independent reality.

4. Good rule of diet: Eat only natural foods that will spoil-- and eat them before they do.

5. The Saint Bernards of the Hospice du Grand St. Bernard in Switzerland have been credited with saving more than 2,500 lives since 1750.

6. Stephen Hawkins, in his 1966 Ph.d thesis: "There is a singularity in our past."

7. Dogs may learn about 2,000 words, cats about 50 words. Cats are more responsive to sounds than words.

8. A 3.1 mile wide comet will collide with the Earth in 2116, and could kill off most forms of life.

9. The King James version of the Bible was completed on William Shakespeare's putative 46th birthday. In Psalm 46, the 46th word is "shake" and the 46th word from the end is "spear".

10. Freezing does not injure the color or flavor or honey, but it may hasten granulation.