Surprising Facts

- George Orwell was a rabid Socialist

- Well over 30 million Facebook accounts are for people who have died

- Mount Everest is not the highest mountain on Earth (Mauna Kea is)

- Donald Trump gets his haircuts from his wife, Melania

- Carbon dioxide represents only 40 parts per million (0.004%) of the Earth's atmosphere

- Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) would be considered a racist using today's standards

- Fresh water represents only 3% of the Earth's supply of water

- Hydroelectric power makes up over 98% of Norway's energy usage

- Angela Merkel is terrified of dogs

- A hummingbird weighs less than a penny

- Emmanuel Macron is married to a woman 25 years his senior

- Solar power produces less than 1% of total U.S. energy usage ... wind power, less than 2%

Ain't No Mountain High Enough

One can watch exciting things transpire for years and not understand the implications of same. One such example that just surprised me was the problem of human waste that has been accumulating on Mount Everest over the last six decades. Over four thousand climbers have summited this Himalayan peak during this period and the consequences of the biological processes of all these mountaineers are not pretty ... see: Washington Post Story.

And to think that the yetis have been pooping on this mountain for generations and have left not a trace ...