friday fun fact

dr. seuss's "green eggs and ham"

was the first book i ever read

there is your friday fun fact!

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now come on, 

i would not make your friday fun fact as simple as that

there is something else special about "green eggs and ham"

it only uses 50 words!!!

no joke!

count them.

i dare you.

dr. seuss was challenged by his editor 

Bennett Serf

to write a book using fewer words than the 225 he used in 

"cat in the hat"

and by george!

dr. seuss did just that.

the fifty words are:

a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would and you.

happy friday everyone!

now go read a book!