6 • September 2016 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. Weird Facts & Fun Trivia - 2


In 1522 Ferdinand Magellan’s crew completed the first circumnavigation of the world.


Diapers by Gabriel A. Fraire ~ gafraire@comcast.net


Healdsburg, CA. ~ There is nothing quite like the ear- ly morning smell of urine soaked diapers. Believe me I am an expert.


In my family I am the oldest


of six children. When I was ten years old my parents had four children un- der the age of five. At the time I also had a seven year old little brother. And, don’t for- get when I was a child it was dur- ing the 1950’s and this wonderful creation called the disposal diaper


had not yet been invented. I changed too many diapers to even guess at the number. We tried everything to make this process easier. At one time we had a laundry ser- vice come and exchange the dirty diapers for clean ones. It sounds great. Except with all those tiny ones in diapers we ended up with huge bags of dirty diapers waiting for


pickup. It stank up the house. I got to be an expert at diaper changing. When I first started diaper changing I would take that dirty diaper and shake out its contents into the toilet. Af- ter a while it got to the point where I’d just put my whole diaper-filled hand in the toilet bowl and shake it. It was way more ef- ficient.


In my late twen- ties, almost a de- cade after having changed anyone’s diaper, I swear I could still smell baby poop under


my finger nails. Whenever I hear a young


parent complain about diaper changing I just smile.


Tese columns are excerpts


from the book Daddy I Need to Go Potty by Gabriel A.


Fraire. Fraire has been a writer more than 45 years. He can be reached through his website: gabrielfraire.com


At Torbay, where yachting events were held, Dane Paul Elvestrom began a string of victories which would stretch over 4 consecutive Olympics.


A ‘glazed frost’ forms when rain


falls at a very low temperature and solidifies immediately on touching a solid surface. The spectacular effect it causes can, however, be damaging to the tree as enormous weights build up that can smash branches off and fell anything in their way, such as power lines.


The fastest truck in the world, the 376 mph rocket powered Shock- wave burns 400 gallons of fuel every mile.


365 different languages are spoken in Indonesia.


In the Kindergarten classes of the school district of Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin, children who were given music instruction scored 48 percent higher on


spatial-temporal skill tests than those who did not receive music training.


A dragonfly’s eye contains 30,000 lenses.


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