99 very interesting facts about soil that are absolutely true in my mind

Romans put the “Ro” into “Rourking.”

I swear it wasn’t us who put in the “urking”.

In Soviet Russia, soil…I gots nothing.

Cite please? You cited your other claims…

http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2010/01/27/the-soil-is-a-living-thing-treat-it-that-way/

http://www.soilassociation.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=oASmzpNJBdA%3D&tabid=147

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A spoonful of dirt contains all the minerals you need to last a lifetime.

The typical backyard contains more nematodes than the Milky Way has stars.

The guy who thought Earth was a good name was really unimaginative.

Actually that guy was very imaginative. He devised the word “Earth” from scratch as a name for the planet. The unimaginative guy was the one who started using " earth" to mean soil.

The word ‘soil’ is derived from a sailor’s acronym for Solids Of Inshore Land.

Actually that can’t be correct. The first written example of the use of the word “soil” predates the earliest example of an acronym by 23 years.

Apple Inc. owns the patent on soil. Google and Microsoft pay a small licence fee each time one of their employees steps on bare earth.

Why would you question a gardener? We do what we gotta do, man.

I KNEW IT!

Soil is the largest organism in the world, and it goes into hibernation each winter. If you go out into your yard, you might be able to hear it gently snoring.

ETA: The internet - helping people make shit up since 1988.

Wrong! That’s in Nepal.

That was found to be the source of bedrock.

Soil is transparent from underneath - anyone who has ever been buried alive could confirm this, if they were not dead.