9 things I learned today

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends is boxing.

2. Niagara Falls' rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute and thus is the only North American landmark constantly moving backwards.

3. Asparagus and rhubarb are the only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons.

4. A strawberry is the only fruit with its seeds on the outside.

5. There is a brandy that has an actual fully ripened pear inside the bottle. People wonder how it gets in there. Well, it grew inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.

6. Three English words beginning with the letters "dw" are dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

7. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses are the fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar.

8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh is lettuce.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S" . Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.