Two Weeks Left!
Two weeks are left until the end of school and graduation. The school year is almost over! Here are some other good things associated with the number two!
-The atomic number of Helium is two.
-The Ten Commandments were given in the form of two tablets.
-"In Finland, two candles were lit on Independence Day. Putting them on the windowsill invokes the symbolical meaning of division, and thus independence."
-The catcher's position in baseball is represented by the number two.
-Dale Earnhardt drove the number two car to the fist of his seven season championships in 1980.
-"Two is the first digit of international telephone dialing codes primarily for countries in Africa."
-There were two of every kind of animal on Noah's Ark.
-Thomas Jefferson's portrait can be found on the two dollar bill.
-"Number 2" is a fictional character in the Austin Powers movies.
-"In Astrology, Taurus is the 2nd sign of the Zodiac."
-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
-The brain only makes up 2% of the human body mass.
-During a person's lifetime, he or she will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
-"One out of every 2,000 newborn infants has a tooth when it is born."
-Two percent of the world's population has no sense of smell at all.
-"It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if a person stops working out than the amount of time it originally took to gain it."
--Whitney Black, Editor-in-Chief