TurnToIslam If you want to know@tti/2nd Edition.

[Abu Juwairiya]

Americans work 137 more hours per year than Japanese workers, 260 more hours per year than British workers, and 499 more hours per year than French workers.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

In 1976, the mummified body of Elmer Mccurdy was found in a funhouse in California. Mccurdy had died in a shootout in 1911 and his body had been used ever since as a sideshow attraction. His discoverers only realized it was a human body when his arm broke off, revealing bone and muscle.

 

[queenislam]

 

[queenislam]

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.

~ Muhammad Ali

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Referring to police as “Five-O” derived from the name of the television series Hawaii Five-O. While they named it Hawaii Five-O in honor of Hawaii’s being the 50th state.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

In 2015 at least 120,000 saiga antelopes died mysteriously en masse. This corresponds to about 50% of the entire population of these rare animals.

 

[queenislam]

The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.

~ Muhammad Ali

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

In the 1960s, Wham-O made a “giant” Super Ball, roughly the size of a bowling ball, and dropped it from a 23rd story window as a promotional stunt. It destroyed a parked car on the second bounce.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Mississippi Truck Driver, Robert Gray, forgot he signed himself up to run in his state’s Democratic gubernatorial election for governor. He would win the nomination without a website or campaign and without voting for himself.

 

[queenislam]

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.
~Will Smith

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

A 4GB ebook reader filled with 3,500 ebooks weighs a billionth of a billionth of a gram more than if it were empty of data – a difference that is approximately the same weight as a molecule of DNA. The same number of physical books would weigh about two tons.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

Dolphins can communicate with one another over a telephone, and appear to know who they are talking. In one experiment carried in an aquarium in Hawaii, the mother and her two-year-old calf in another tank, connected by a special underwater audio link, recognized each other and “talked”.

 

[queenislam]

Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
~Aaron Klein

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

A man accused of embezzling $8.7 million hid from law enforcement by hiking the Appalachian Trail for six years.

 

[queenislam]

I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.

A R Rahman

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The Iliad and the Odyssey are just two parts out of an eight-part epic, but the other six parts have been almost entirely lost to history.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

In 1994 a 74 year old man unable to get a driver’s license drove 240 miles on a 1966 John Deere lawnmower to visit his brother who recently had a stroke. At a top speed of 5 mph, the journey took 6 weeks.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

A man who wanted to create a whites-only town in North Dakota [USA] was found to be of African descent.

 

[queenislam]

The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.
Ahmet Necdet Sezner

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

The Mosquito alarm was used to repel young people by emitting a high frequency only audible to youngsters. But teenagers in the USA set it as a ringtone to avoid being heard by teachers.

 

[Abu Juwairiya]

In the U.S., there are 1.5 times more Google searches for “heaven” than “hell.”