It's official:
We've made it to the end of yet another week, and now the weekend is upon us.
Can I get a Hallelujah?
Personally, it's been a VERY productive week for yours truly.
– Book 7 of The Divided Region is hurtling forward despite making some plot changes on the fly (both for this novel and the future series) that are going to knock the socks off many of you.
– I've migrated djjwatson.com to its own dedicated website instead of just a landing page. People who clicked on Monday's link will have noticed.
– I'm halfway through Oliver Reed's authorised biography, What Fresh Lunacy is This? (the chap who played Proximo in Gladiator).
– And now I'm about to cap off the week with… Fun Fact Friday, making it the second instalment of the week due to my cock-up last Friday, which we'll quietly ignore as we all know I am a flawless fellow.
And boy, have I got FIVE goodies for you in this segment.
Let's dig into them:
Did you know…
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid? The pyramids were already about 2,500 years old when she was born.
(Talk about a relic… the Great Pyramid — not Cleopatra.)
Did you know…
Sharks are older than trees? Sharks have existed for roughly 450 million years, while the earliest trees appeared around 390 million years ago.
(There was me thinking trees were the wise ones.)
Did you know…
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not? Botanically, a berry develops from a single ovary with seeds inside; bananas fit, strawberries don't.
(Think that's interesting? Wait for the last fact.)
Did you know…
The shortest war in history lasted just 38 minutes? It was the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896.
(Amazing what rock, paper, and scissors can settle. It's a JOKE, people!)
Did you know…
Humans share about 60% of their DNA with bananas. We're more genetically similar to fruit than most people expect.
(I guess that… makes us all… cannibals? Noooooooooo.)
And there you have it, Legionnaire.
Five fun facts to cap off your week.
I bet you won't look at a banana the same way again, eh? I most certainly won't. It won't stop me from eating the buggers, though.
In fact, I'm yamming one down right now.
You know what else I'm doing?
Drumming up ways to sling you Tiny Epics: Vol. 1 and failing miserably, so I'll just leave you with a link instead, should you wish to devour bite-sized fantasy, sci-fi, and horror adventures over the coming weekend:
https://djjwatsonstore.com/products/Tiny-Epics-Vol-1
Stay classy out there!
DJJW