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101 things that matter more than Jalen Ramsey and A.J. Bouye missing voluntary OTAs

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The Jacksonville Jaguars were without starting cornerbacks Jalen Ramsey and A.J. Bouye for their first day of offseason activities.

Does it matter? No.

No, really, does it matter at all? No.

Ramsey and Bouye are two of the best at what they do in the entire world. They are All-Pro cornerbacks. If they don’t want to show up for pajama practice, who cares?

Well, some people care. But you shouldn’t care, because it doesn’t matter.

And here are 101 things that matter more than Ramsey and Bouye missing voluntary OTAs to prove it:

  1. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
  2. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.
  3. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
  4. It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
  5. On average, Americans eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.
  6. In medieval France, unfaithful wives were made to chase a chicken through town naked.
  7. More bullets were fired in ‘Starship Troopers’ than any other movie ever made.
  8. Honey is the only food which does not spoil.
  9. Babies are born without kneecaps.
  10. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
  11. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
  12. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
  13. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
  14. John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
  15. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
  16. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  17. A snail can sleep for three years.
  18. All polar bears are left-handed.
  19. China has more English speakers than the United States.
  20. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
  21. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
  22. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
  23. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
  24. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
  25. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
  26. The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
  27. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
  28. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
  29. There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, “therein”: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
  30. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
  31. The male gypsy moth can “smell” the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
  32. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
  33. The pupils of a goat’s eyes are square.
  34. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
  35. The average secretary’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
  36. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
  37. There are more chickens than people in the world (at least before that chicken-flu thing).
  38. Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
  39. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
  40. All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
  41. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
  42. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
  43. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
  44. Almonds are members of the peach family.
  45. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
  46. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
  47. There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
  48. Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”. And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, “L.A.”
  49. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
  50. The “pound” key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
  51. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
  52. The “dot” over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
  53. Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.
  54. Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
  55. The original story from “Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights” begins, “Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.”
  56. It is impossible to tickle yourself.
  57. A typical pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.
  58. Astronauts get taller in space due to the lack of gravity.
  59. The total surface area of human lungs is 750 square feet. That’s roughly the same area as on-side of a tennis court.
  60. Mosquitos have contributed to more deaths than any animals on earth.
  61. An octopus has 3 hearts, 9 brains, and blue blood.
  62. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
  63. Snails can sleep up to 3 years.
  64. Methane gases produced by cow products as much pollution as cars do.
  65. The majority of the duct in your house is made up from your own dead skin.
  66. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
  67. Most ice-cream contains pig skins (Gelatin).
  68. The Philippine island of Luzon contains a lake that contains an island that contains a lake that contains another island.
  69. Hudson Bay Area in Canada had less gravity than rest of the world and scientists do not know why.
  70. Only one to two percent of the entire world population are natural redheads.
  71. Sloppy handwriting has doctors kills more than 7,000 people and injures more than 1.5million people annually due to getting the wrong medication.
  72. Putting sugar on a wound or cut will greatly reduce pain and shorten healing process.
  73. Real diamonds do not show up in X-ray.
  74. Due to extreme pressure and weather conditions, it literally rains diamonds on Neptune and Uranus.
  75. There are 7 different kinds of twins: Identical, Fraternal, Half-Identical, Mirror Image Twins, Mixed Chromosome Twins, Superfecundation and Superfetation.
  76. Before the 17th century, carrots were actually purple. They didn’t get their orange color until mutation occupied.
  77. If the sun is scaled down to the size of a white blood cell, the Milky Way would be equal the size of the United States.
  78. A grammatical pedantry syndrome is a form of OCD in which suffers feel the need to correct every grammatical error that they see.
  79. Scorpions can hold their breath underwater for up to 6 days.
  80. In zero gravity, a candle’s flame is round and blue.
  81. Only 8 percent of the world’s money exists in physical form, the rest is in computers.
  82. Crows are able to recognize human faces and even hold grudges against ones that they don’t like.
  83. Your cellphone carries up to ten times more bacteria than a toilet seat.
  84. Humans and bananas share about 50 percent of the same DNA.
  85. Humans have fewer chromosomes than a potato.
  86. An American Pharmacist named John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola who advertises it as a nerve tonic for curing headaches and fatigue.
  87. Statistically, you are more likely to die on the way to buy a lottery ticket than you are to win the lottery itself.
  88. The word checkmate comes from the Arabic شاه مات (šāh māt) which means “the king is dead.”
  89. Hot water turns to ice faster than cool water. This is known as the Mpemba effect.
  90. Apollo 7 Mission was the first “astronaut ice cream” flew in space. However, it was so unpopular among astronauts and was retired from the menu after only one trip into space.
  91. Apollo 8 astronauts were the first to celebrate Christmas in space.
  92. IV Is The Roman Numeral designation for 4 everywhere. However, on the clock face, 4 is displayed as “IIII”.
  93. The Apple Macintosh had the signatures Of its design team engraved inside its case.
  94. Japan has the most vending machines per capita, a staggering 1:23.
  95. A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
  96. Worcestershire sauce in essentially an Anchovy Ketchup.
  97. A spider has transparent blood.
  98. Every acre of American crops harvested contains 100 pounds of insects.
  99. Tehran is the most expensive city on earth.
  100. The word Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell.
  101. Myles Jack wasn’t down.

Thanks to DJTech.net, LaughBreak.com, and UselessDaily.com for all these facts that are literally more important than Jalen Ramsey and A.J. Bouye missing voluntary practice.