Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 02, 2016

What’s the other ten percent: Nine percent punctuation and one percent numerals?

Ken Ham is having a new one built n Kentucky.

Yes, it is hard to get “floccinaucinihilipilification” in a sentence.

Does the ark actually work?

Eivdently one thing Johan did not know is how to sail a boat. as soon as he launched ii on his maiden cruise (a couple of weeks ago) Johan’s Ark collided with a Coast Guard vessel doing major damage to both craft.

The flood referred to in the bible, was when the Black Seaflooded/ filled when the ice caps raised sea levels after the last ice age. Ref. Bill Ryan- Walter Pitman bookNOAH`S FLOOD

And, Johan, this time kill both cockroaches.

Are they talking just about English or including other languages?

That ark still wouldn’t hold pairs of millions of species.

Gee Wiz and Oh Wow make up 99% of of the meaning in BIoN and the ‘!’ 99% of the punctuation.

The Ark isn’t a full size replica. It is ½ the length & 40% of the width.

It is still an impressive sight though! Have been in it when it came to Rotterdam.

My apologies, this refers to the second Ark, I saw the first Ark!

“The world” as the ancients knew it was a very small place indeed.They didn’t even know of the Romans at that time, so the idea of collecting one of each species known in a small section of the African continent didn’t seem undo-able.

I must say I’m surprised at the 1000 figure; I had the figure 3000 in mind as an average everyday vocabulary. Actually, having looked up the reference Ripley is right! See this article. But this is an exponential curve, based on word frequency.