Archive of Fact of The Day 2007

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Monday, January 01, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#585)

NOW, THIS OLD BOY REALLY WAS A CON ARTIST

During federal court proceedings in 1993, while Charles J. Bazarian was being convicted of swindle, he was charged with a second swindle; This time he had bilked the district attorney of Irvine, California, who should have known better, considering he, himself, had prosecuted Bazarian three years earlier on bank swindle. But this hoodwinked DA still invested $8,000 with the defendant in an Oklahoma company,....... worth exactly zero.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#586)

AND WHAT IF HE LOST HIS JOB AFTER ONLY 1,000 YEARS?

American William G. Stern, 33, admitted in a London court he owed close to $209,000,000. He had borrowed the money on behalf of 180 companies he once controlled, but then lost everything in the British property market's collapse. In good faith, he offered the judge a repayment plan of $12,000 each year for life. (Without interest or late charges, those payments would take him more than 17,416 years to complete.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#587)

DURING LOVEMAKING, HE BECAME TOTALLY DRAINED

By the time Attila the Hun died in 453 A.D., he had conquered all of Europe. How did he die? He overexerted himself enjoying his favorite sport, sex. He blew a blood vessel and hemorrhaged to death.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, January 04, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#588)

HEREDITY? ENVIRONMENT? SCIENCE HAS MUCH TO LEARN

In 1993, Dale Chester, 22. was sentenced to 3 years by a California court for raping his brother Rubin's pregnant wife. Dale's other brothers Leonard, 32, and Samuel, 29, were already serving long terms for violent rape of 5 different women on separate offenses. Rubin, who's pregnant wife got raped, was serving time for robbery and assault. What kind of parents raised these dangerous men? Their father is a minister, their mother a Christian missionary. (Those who knew these violent men as boys said their parents were wonderful role models.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, January 05, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#589)

THEY COULD PARACHUTE DOGS, THEN DOG CATCHERS, THEN ....

To kill mosquitoes on Borneo in the 1960s, the World Health Organization sprayed so much DDT it disrupted the food chain, allowing the island to become overrun with rats. Then, the United States got involved by parachuting large numbers of cats to control the rats, which caused ................................

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, January 06, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#590)

NEVER CONFUSE JUSTICE WITH REALITY, EVER

As a young and beautiful model, Marla Hanson had just gotten her career started in 1985, when three men took straight razors and sliced up her face. She was later awarded $78,183,000 in an uncontested judgment. But, with the three men serving from five to fifteen years, with no incomes, Ms. Hanson relived her horrible experience in court for basically nothing.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, January 07, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#591)

WHAT HE TICKLED WAS NOT THEIR FANCY

"In my 28 years on the force, I've never encountered a case like this," Nassau County Detective Louis Fucito said, shaking his head. He'd just arrested Richard Hunter, 20, son of the Reverend Richard Hunter, pastor of the Friendship Baptist Church in Roslyn Heights, New York. The young Hunter was suspected of the random foot ticklings and shoe thefts of six young women.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, January 08, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#592)

ALL TO WATCH A BUNCH OF CARS GO IN CIRCLES

A race car driven by Pierre Levegh skidded off the track during the 1955 Le Mans Grand Prix, crashed into a crowd, bounced into the air, then exploded, injuring over 100 plus killing the driver and 82 spectators. (Question: Do race car fans go to races hoping for horror?)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#593)

KIND OF SOUNDS LIKE REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS

For centuries, once a year, in the western state of Maharashtra, India, women would come down to a canal dividing their villages (Sukhed and Bor line) and, on cue, start shouting and insulting each other across the waterway. That tradition went back many years to when both villages had the same chief, who had two wives, one living on each side. (This annual event was canceled by the police in 1992.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#594)

IF YOU'RE ARMLESS, DON'T TAKE A DUMP HERE

Beautiful Singapore, definitely the cleanest large city on earth, uses a "Loo Patrol" to watch their public toilets. Much like meter maids giving parking tickets, these inspectors first hover and listen closely. Should a user not flush, the law allows these public potty protectors to issue the offending non-flusher a ticket, which can cost up to 1,000 Singapore dollars.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, January 11, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#595)

BUT DID HE MAKE AN ASS OF HIMSELF WHEN DRINKING?

The Havana, Cuba, news agency Prensa Latina reported several years ago on Pancho, a burro living at a bar overlooking the Mayabe Valley in eastern Cuba. Veterinarians who watched Pancho drink up to 30 liters of beer a day, warned if he did not "cut back" he would develop liver problems.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, January 12, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#596)

EXTREME LESSONS TEACH THE MOST THE FASTEST

Just over a decade ago, performing artist Ron Athey went on stage at the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with an unusual act. Volunteer Darryl Carlton joined him on stage, then removed his shirt. Next, he allowed Athey to slice open his back. Athey then soaked up the blood from the cuts into towels and passed them to the audience for inspection. They were later told Mr. Carlton had AIDS, and the act was designed to educate and enlighten the AIDS-phobic public that this disease is not that easy to catch.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, January 13, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#597)

R*E*S*P*E*C*T, FIND OUT WHAT IT MEANS TO ME!

A multi-denominational church in Hewitt, New Jersey, offered a support group for those who felt low self-esteem because they seldom got the respect they thought they deserved. But on the first night of the first meeting that image was reinforced, unfortunately. When those enrolled arrived at the church's front door, they found a note reading: Those attending the "low self-esteem" support group will need to enter the church through the back door.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, January 14, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#598)

SOUNDS LIKE A REALLY NICE GUY

UPI reports on a robber, in Chicago, who returned to a bank he had robbed the previous December and introduced himself to the same teller, asking if she remembered him? He then used the same crumpled note demanding cash. (Later he was arrested, and police were very glad to see him.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, January 15, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#599)

AND GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD ...................

While William Joseph Brennan (1906-97) was U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1956-1990), Los Angeles minister R.L. Hymers, Jr., repeatedly begged his parishioners to pray for Brennan's death, saying only God could empty that high seat, allowing an antiabortionist justice to be appointed.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#600)

LAWS CAN'T PROTECT PEOPLE FROM THEMSELVES

Between 1981 and 1986 the Florida fatality rate involving drunk bicycle riders doubled. Reason was, according to Florida's Department of Transportation, tougher drunk driving laws enacted in 1981 caused many drunk drivers to lose their licenses.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#601)

KINDA TOOK THE FUN OUT OF HIS TRIP

In 1984, Thomas Tyrrell, 35, walked from Detroit to Washington, D.C., to encourage more research into his handicap, multiple sclerosis. Finally, standing on the U.S. Capital's lawn, mentally preparing to make his plea before congress, Tyrrell was knocked to the ground by two men, hit in the stomach, kicked in the groin, his crutch broken, and his last $55 stolen.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, January 18, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#602)

PRIMAL HORMONES COLLECTING MODERN DEBTS

The company Bodywise, a London manufacturer of fragrances, began marketing Aeolus 7 some ten years ago, mostly to debt collectors. Those using this product were amazed to see increases in payments from deadbeats up by nearly 17% as long as the mailed paper billing notices were treated with this "unique" smell. It was so successful, in fact, some agencies were willing to pay the price of $6,000 per gram. (The product's main ingredient is the pheromone adrostenone, the essence of smell from men's unbathed armpits and groins.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, January 19, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#603)

COMPETITION AT ITS VERY BEST

The 1931 U. S. Open Golf Tournament finished with players George Von Elm and Billy Burke tied at 292 strokes each. These two then played another 36 holes and tied again with 149 strokes each. After playing 72 more holes, Billy Burke won by one stroke.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, January 20, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#604)

AREN'T STEPCHILDREN THOSE CONCEIVED ON STAIRWAYS?

In The Dallas Morning News Corrections and Clarifications, August 5, 2004: "An article in Sunday's Metro section incorrectly referred to Sarah Lawhorn as the ex-wife of Elvin "Bubba" Ryder III. Mr. Ryder, who was remembered at a memorial service Saturday, was never married to Ms. Lawhorn. Additionally, he did not have stepdaughters."

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, January 21, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#605)

DO THE LOSERS HAVE TO SWIM THE RIO GRANDE HOME?

The Dallas Morning News and the Associated Press reported in September of 2004 a new reality show would soon air locally at 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, on KMPX-TV Channel 29. Contestants, they said, would swallow live tequila worms, try and catch pigs drenched in butter and jump between 18-wheelers. The grand prize,.........an immigration attorney who would try and help the winner get a green card.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, January 22, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#606)

APPARENTLY, IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE, NOT?

Pompano, Florida, undercover police set up a sting operation involving two pounds of cocaine, hoping to arrest two drug suspects who had just arrived in the area. But during the sting, the Pompano officers found they were arresting two undercover officers from Fort Lauderdale.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#607)

WHAT'S PINK, AND KINKY? THESE DIRTY BIRDS

USA Today reported in 1993 that Florida Wildlife Park officials were planning to set up mirrors around six Caribbean flamingos to increase their numbers. Why? Flamingos prefer having sex in groups.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#608)

BUT DID THAT PEDESTRIAN ROADKILL 'DING' THE CAR'S PAINT?

An $81,000 lawsuit was filed against police in Santa Barbara, California, by Godfrey Naim, 45, after he was arrested for knocking down, and running over a jaywalker. Mr. Naim's complaint involved the treatment of his expensive Maserati sports car while in their possession overnight, outside, uncovered.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, January 25, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#609)

HIS MOM WAS REALLY A ROTTEN PERSON

When Escondido California police pulled over a van driven by Arthur Armbruster, they were surprised by his only passenger, his 87-year-old dead mother. Mr. Armbruster explained he'd already buried her twice, but had "visions" neither grave was right for her. "He's been driving around Mom long enough", said detective Joe Santibane. "I think that Mom is going to have to be taken away from him".

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, January 26, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#610)

WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THIS HAPPENING?

As Federal agent Carlos Montalvo moved in to arrest a drug dealer in Hialeah, Florida, the suspect pulled a gun and fired from close range directly at Montalvo, yet the agent stood erect. The bullet from the suspect's gun fired straight down the barrel of the agent's service revolver. Montalvo escaped with no more than facial cuts, caused by flying fragments from his own gun.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, January 27, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#611)

THIS GUY RUINED THE COPS' FUN

An emergency call reporting a man holding a woman at knife point in Tulsa, Oklahoma, caused police to surround a house, which turned out to be next door to the address of the attack. While specially trained negotiators tried to make contact with the suspect, the suspect came from next door to give himself up. But the police, being expertly trained, refused his begs for handcuffs; that is until a reporter convinced them their suspect was him.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, January 28, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#612)

HE MAKES SCROOGE SOUND LIKE FATHER CHRISTMAS

With a reporter present, Guey Wong, owner of a cab service in San Francisco, explained why he had to fire a 22-year-old female cab driver because she had been raped in her cab while a loaded gun was held to her head. Mr. Wong explained, "I can't afford to take any chances. I'm lucky the cab wasn't hurt. You might endanger my insurance, you might increase my rates."

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, January 29, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#613)

YOU MIGHT GET TIRED OF ROTATING THESE TIRES

At their plant in Topeka, Kansas, Goodyear manufactures giant truck tires 11'6" tall, weighing 12,500 pounds, and costing $150,000 each.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#614)

HAD THEY BEEN BURIED, WOULD THEY'VE FELT THE SAME?

With precision teamwork firemen in Moraga, California, pulled a man from a caved-in trench and saved his life in a three hour rescue that went off without a hitch. That is until the Occupational and Safety Health Administration (OSHA) cited the fire department for rescuing the victim from the 12-foot deep trench without shoring up the sides with code quality wall supports.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#615)

DID HE LEAVE THE TOILET SEAT UP...OR DOWN, IS THE QUESTION

Returning from a weekend ski trip, Jeff Hill and his wife found Richard Roe, 45, living in their Burbank, California, home, wearing Mrs. Hill's lingerie. He had moved furniture, emptied perfume bottles, thrown away food and left notes around the house about then (1986) President Ronald Reagan, as well as actress Sally Field.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, February 01, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#616)

DON'T EAT LUNCH AT YOUR DESK, USE A COMMODE SEAT INSTEAD

ABC's Paul Harvey News reported on a study concerning sanitation in today's business offices. The report stated a square inch of the tested desk tops contained an average of about 21,000 germs, 4 times the number found on toilet seats in restrooms used by these same workers.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, February 02, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#617)

REMINDER: READ BEFORE USING

Toilet paper was first introduced to Americans in 1847 as a stack of loose napkins, and was a total failure from the start. Why? Middle-class Americans were already receiving totally free toilet paper in the form of Sears Roebuck mail order catalog pages.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, February 03, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#618)

A MICKEY MOUSE OPERATION THAT'S NOT

Bar Harbor, Maine, other than a great place to eat fresh lobster, is the largest center for mammalian genetics in the world. They produce 3,000,000 mice a year for scientific research.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, February 04, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#619)

THAT'S ENOUGH RUNS TO DRIVE ONE BATTY

Even though baseball was a new sport in 1865, records were already being very accurately kept. In that year, on October 10th (a Tuesday), the Philadelphia Athletics set a record which still stands today, over 142 years later. That's because, while playing a double header, they first beat the Williamsport (Pennsylvania) city team 101-8, then later that day defeating the Danville (Illinois) team 130-11, totaling 231 runs.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, February 05, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#620)

WHAT THEY NEEDED WAS A BLOWUP VINYL ZOO CURATOR

Officials at Houston's city zoo admitted their coral snake, displayed in a glass case was, uh, made of rubber. "We had live snakes in the exhibit, but they don't do well", said curator John Donaho.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#621)

SOME FOLKS, MENTALLY, STILL LIVING IN CAVES

Even as recently as 1988 a survey of 1,500 Australians showed 20% (1 in 5) men believed it was acceptable to kick or beat their wife if she failed to obey and keep a clean house. Also, in the U.S.A., a Rhode Island Rape Crisis Center revealed that 24% of 7th to 9th grade boys, and 16% of girls questioned believed it was okay for men on a date to force sex with a woman if he spent money on her.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#622)

HE WAS PROBABLY DRIVEN MAD BY GNATS ON HIS NO-NO

Robert Horton, 65, was sentenced to 30 days in jail by Judge Joe McDade in a circuit court in Pekin, Illinois, for gardening in the nude. After being convicted 6 times for the same offense, Mr. Norton said it was still his constitutional right to garden in exactly the same wardrobe God gave him, except for the tennis shoes.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, February 08, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#623)

HE MUST'VE BEEN PRETTY UGLY UNDER THAT BEARD?

When King Louis VII of France returned from the Crusades in 1152, with a clean shaven face, his wife, Lady Eleanor, demanded a divorce and married the King of England. She then tried to get her dowry, two French provinces, transferred to her new husband. King Louis refused, which started the "War of the Whiskers" which lasted until 1453, over 300 years later. (All, not for the hair, on his chinny, chin, chin.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, February 09, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#624)

A NICE PAIR OF DESIGNER FRAMES MIGHT'VE IMPROVED HIS MOOD

Postman Charles Palmer was to stand trial on mail fraud charges in Hilton Head, South Carolina, for ordering over 300 magazine subscriptions for an optometrist he became angry with, over a pair of glasses. (He was never tried. Two days before his scheduled court appearance, Mr. Palmer shot himself to death.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, February 10, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#625)

A SIMPLE CURE FOR A PANDEMIC DISORDER

Before "Enriched" American white bread is baked, the preservatives BHA, BHT and calcium propionates are added to retard spoilage. These same, exact chemicals, removed from the diets of young hyperactive children has been proven to virtually cure their hyperactivity. (WAR: Wonder Bread vs. The Wonder Drug Ritalin. The battlefield? A child's body.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, February 11, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#626)

YEP, THEY SURE SHOWED THEM ALRIGHT

Russian Orthodox dissenters known as the Old Believers refused to accept certain liturgical reforms to their religion in the 17th century and, over a period of several years, more than 20,000 of these dissenters burned themselves alive in protest.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, February 12, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#627)

YET, NOW HE CAN'T APPLAUD HIS OWN ACTIONS

Donald E. Maurice, 33, walked into the wood shop at Appalachian University in Boone, North Carolina, and used a power saw to cut off his right arm. After which, he explained, "I did it to prevent myself from committing suicide".

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#628)

THIS FRUIT CERTAINLY DIDN'T FALL FAR FROM THE TREE

A Santa Clara County, California, jail turned into a family reunion hall when Robert Arthur Magoon, age 19, and his father, Arthur Magoon, met for the very first time. Young Robert had violated his parole, while his absent, role model, father was behind bars for robbery.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#629)

WRONG RELIGION, OR WHAT?

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee reported in 1961 that Mao Tse-Tung's 1949 purge of China caused the murders of 61,000,000 people. (That's about ten times the number of humans killed by Adolph Hitler's Nazi Holocaust, yet the Western world took little notice.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, February 15, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#630)

MAYBE NOW SHE CAN GET 20% OFF ON MANICURES?

Chanel Price, 31, was hired to deliver a singing telegram at a private St. Patrick's Day party in Malibu, California. She arrived by helicopter, stepped to the ground, then raised her hand to wave at the guests, losing two fingers to the chopper's fast rotating blades.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, February 16, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#631)

WRONG POLES

According to a United Nations report in 1982, the sex education lessons taught on site in remote Asian villages were not reducing the birth rate in any significant numbers for the following reasons: Men, convinced they were the entire "baby makers," refused their female lovers birth control pills, swallowing the tablets themselves. Also, demonstrations with condoms had caused tribal users to either wear them on their fingers, or roll them down over bamboo poles (witchcraft style).

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, February 17, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#632)

THE PURSE MIGHT'VE LOOKED GREAT WITH PRISON ATTIRE?

At exactly 12:03 P.M. on October 24, 1989, Kelvin Chambers was released from the Arlington Virginia County Jail. Exactly 14 minutes later, at 12:17, he attempted to steal a purse on the street outside the jail, and was back behind bars by 12:40.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, February 18, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#633)

NOSEY OLD BUGGER, HE WAS

Back in 1979 "in an attempt to curb immorality," KwaZulu-Natal Chief Ngcobo of Mafunze, South Africa, demanded examinations of every girl in his domain. Elder women in each village were asked to provide a list of virgins, with the award of a bull to the village with the longest list. Also, all "deflowered" young women were demanded to pay the chief $11.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, February 19, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#634)

TAKES BRAVE SOULS THESE DAYS TO TEACH CHILDREN

Assistant school superintendent Douglas Tarrant of St. Petersburg, Florida, was charged with sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl. Feeling helpless to defend himself against these charges, Tarrant committed suicide. The girl had retracted her story two days before, but police hadn't gotten around to telling him.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#635)

BUT WHO NEEDS THEM ANYWAY, SWEETHEART?

Under Muslim law, if a man performs a homosexual act with another man, he cannot marry that man's sister, daughter or mother.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#636)

AT THIS RATE A 150 POUND HUMAN COULD EAT A 300 POUND STEAK

Shrews are small, mouse-like nocturnal animals of the family Soricidae. They are probably the most ferocious ounce-for-ounce mammal alive and can kill and eat twice their body weight during any nightly rampage.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, February 22, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#637)

AH YES, THE PROPRIETY OF THE ENGLISH

As of at least a few years ago, in Liverpool, England, no man was allowed to dress or undress a female mannequin in any department store while children were watching. Nor were children allowed to look up the dresses of mannequins.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, February 23, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#638)

HE WAS MOONLIGHTING WHILE THE SUN WAS OUT

Luigi Cincotta held a job with the Palermo Health Council in Italy for ten years, until he was fired in 1980. During those ten years he was absent at least five of those years with excuses such as illness, convalescence and deaths in the family. In reality, his main job was as a furniture salesman.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, February 24, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#639)

THAT'LL TEACH HIM

On January 28, 1990, Eddie Harris rushed over to his fiancé's Houston apartment and immediately changed TV channels to watch Super Bowl XXIV. His true love, 37-year-old Dolores Douglas, however, had been watching a Disney movie. Mr. Harris' sudden change of channels caused Ms. Douglas to forget the meat cooking in her oven, while she stabbed her lover in the back with a long-stemmed barbecue fork.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, February 25, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#640)

TRIPS TO THE SPITTOON MIGHT BREAK THE MOOD?

An example of a law so old no one knows why it was ever put on the books exists in Warrenville, Connecticut. That local ordinance prohibits a man or woman from using snuff during lovemaking, unless he or she has the permission of the partner.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, February 26, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#641)

THESE FOLKS WOULD JUST HAVE TO GET DRUNK AT HOME

To celebrate its 100th year of organized soccer in Hereford, England, a grand festival was planned to let local lovers of the sport have a grand time. But, unfortunately, in the middle of all the planning and projects, someone took a closer look at the record books, and determined only 90 years had lapsed. This brought all planning and projects to a stop, instantly and permanently.

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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#642)

THEY BOTH DECIDED TO "RINSE OUT A FEW THINGS"

The Journal of the American Medical Association reported the deaths of two women in Seattle, each caused by too many enemas. One woman, following a radical mastectomy, had received four coffee enemas a day for fourteen days in a Mexican clinic. The other woman, attempting to treat gallstones, took ten to twenty enemas the first day, then as many as one an hour until she suffered seizures and went into a coma.

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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#643)

HE'LL HAVE TROUBLE SHAKING HANDS WEARING A STRAIGHTJACKET

While covering a news conference held by John Rogers, candidate for the U.S. Senate, Loren Tobia, news director for WSAZ-TV in Charleston, West Virginia, asked Rogers, "Do you think your recent stay in a mental institution will hurt your candidacy?" Rogers asked, "Was that a serious question?" then went over and punched Tobia in the face.

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Thursday, March 01, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#644)

HE MIGHT BEAT IT WITH A GOOD LAWYER

It was a proud day for Dan Jackson when he became the police chief of Clear Water, Iowa. During his television interview he promised to make sure the laws of the city were followed, or else. And he was telling the truth. During the 10:00 P.M. news, several viewers called in to report their police chief had not been wearing his seat belt as he drove away; so he wrote himself his first ticket.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, March 02, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#645)

IF MEN GOT PREGNANT, WOULD BIRTH CONTROL BE WORLDWIDE?

After Saudi Arabia made it a law that no form of birth control could be purchased under any circumstances in their country, the World Moslem League ruled, "Birth control was invented by enemies of Islam."

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, March 03, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#646)

HE TRULY HAS MONEY AT HIS FINGERTIPS

Dennis John Alston was arrested by police in Van Nuys, California, on charges of forging checks. He was released on a $1,500 bond, which he paid with a cashier's check, also a forgery.

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Sunday, March 04, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#647)

FOR THOSE WHO ENJOY AN EVENING OUT, PERHAPS?

Even though a new $34 million jail built in Dade County, Florida, was totally state-of-the-art, just before opening, it was found some important attachments were missing. Michael Berg, county director of jails and prisons in Florida, said he could not explain why the 198 cells had no doors attached, but assured all present this could be fixed.

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Monday, March 05, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#648)

THEY CAN'T GO ON MEETING LIKE THIS

Nancy Wiggins, 41, of St. Clairsville, Ohio, was driving home from work, when an approaching car crossed the line, causing a collision which hospitalized the driver's of both cars. And who was the other driver? Kenneth Wiggins, 45, the husband of Nancy, on his way to work.

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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#649)

WONDER IF HE HAS TROUBLE CASHING CHECKS NOW?

Gary Eugene Duda, 35, received a positive ruling from Superior Court in De Kalb, Georgia, to officially change his first name to "Zippidy." Therefore, Mr. Duda is now legally known as Zippidy Duda.

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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#650)

OH, CRAP!!!

On August 8, 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus stopped on a bridge over the Chicago River, where the driver got out and opened a valve, dumping 800 pounds of raw sewage over the edge. Far below, a Chicago River sightseeing boat had 120 people on its upper deck, who were all drenched in this human waste.

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Thursday, March 08, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#651)

AND YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD A BAD DAY

Joseph Briggs, 60, of West Philadelphia, whose car slammed into two utility poles, plunged down a 20-foot embankment and crashed though a fence, was able to get out of the car and climb up to the street to signal for help. As he tried to wave down a passing truck, however, Briggs was hit and killed instantly.

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Friday, March 09, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#652)

THIS FATHER FOUND HIS SON A REPLACEMENT FOR VIDEO GAMES

Doctor Leonard Wolin was suspended by the Michigan Board of Medicine for allowing his 14-year-old son to assist in a bladder operation on a 50-year-old female patient. The boy had inflated a catheter balloon inside the woman's abdomen, as well as sewn stitches to complete the procedure.

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Saturday, March 10, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#653)

GEICO AND STATE FARM PROBABLY DON'T WANT OFFICES HERE

When Albania legalized private ownership of automobiles in 1992, there were no rules, no signs, no laws and no instructions for the sudden explosion of 40,000 licensed drivers. This left untrained operators to drive on both sides of the road, with little regard for intersections. In the first 6 months, alone, 166 pedestrians were run over and killed.

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Sunday, March 11, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#654)

THERE WAS SOMETHING "FISHY" GOING ON THAT NIGHT

In 1992, singer Patti LaBelle had been performing for about 90 minutes on stage in Warwick, Rhode Island, when she stopped singing and explained to the audience her seafood platter eaten backstage had only contained seven shrimp. With that, she walked off stage.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, March 12, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#655)

HE WAS CLEANING UP BY SAVING HIS RENT

When federal officers in San Francisco opened a small room in the Federal Building they found a bed, a hot plate, two televisions, as well as cash, stocks and bonds. It was soon determined the only employee with a key to that room was Virgil E. Johnson, custodian, who was away on vacation. Fellow workers then admitted Johnson had been living in that room for almost seventeen years.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#656)

THIS OLE BOY NEEDS SOME DIRT, BAD

After Ferdinand Marcos died in exile, the Philippine government denied his widow, Imelda, her request to return his body for burial. In response she stated, "Look at these typhoons, volcanic eruptions, and now what's happening in America. For the sake of the Republic of the Philippines, for the Filipino people, [we must] put the remains of the president to rest so these negative vibrations will leave us." (She also held "viewing" cocktail parties for her husband's corpse while it "slept" in his coffin.)

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#657)

THIS SUBWAY TRANSFER TOOK HIM STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN

While waiting to catch a train in a Chicago subway station, Angelo Thurman, 22, told friends he could tell when a train was coming. With that, he jumped onto the tracks and placed his ear against the third rail, instantly electrocuting himself.

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Thursday, March 15, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#658)

AND YOU CAN BET GERMAN ELVIS GOT "ALL SHOOK UP"

"The Best Elvis in the Whole World" sued "Germany's Best Elvis" over rights to claim to be the best Elvis impersonator in Germany. The judge ruled in favor of the best in the world. (Let's all give him a great big round of yawns.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, March 16, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#659)

THEY IMPORTED THEIR IGNORANCE

In colonial New England it was illegal for a husband and wife to have sex on Sunday. And any child born on Sunday was denied baptism. Why? The prevailing ignorance of the day said a child born on Sunday was conceived on Sunday.

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Saturday, March 17, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#660)

A GREAT PLACE TO OPEN A WIG FRANCHISE

In Skopje, in the former country of Yugoslavia, if a married woman was caught having sex with a man other than her husband, she was taken to the city limits, her head shaven, and left alone to walk back to town. If a man was caught doing the same thing, little or nothing was done.

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Sunday, March 18, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#661)

TRY PUTTING THIS PIECE OF FRUIT IN YOUR LUNCH BOX

The Cauliflorous Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam), native to Malaysia, is the largest fruit produced by a tree. This huge editable treat can grow to three feet long (91.4 centimeters), twenty inches in diameter (50.8 centimeters) and weigh up to 75 pounds (34.01943 kilograms).

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Monday, March 19, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#662)

WHAT NICE FOLKS. THEY FED THE HOMELESS

After Francisca Cruz murdered her landlady in Los Angeles, she and her son dismembered the body in a bathtub, boiled the flesh, packaged, then distributed the meat in trash cans along the streets, intending it as food for the homeless.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#663)

THIS COULD MAKE THEIR HEADS SWIM

The Everglades Bar in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, offers a mixed drink with a "bonus," if the customer wishes. The bonus is a live, squirming goldfish, dropped into any drink. Manager Mike Sill says customers consume about three dozen goldfish weekly.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#664)

ARE THESE EMPLOYERS PERHAPS NOT GETTING THEIR MONEY'S WORTH?

Dr. John A. Greene earned $109,000 a year administering psychological tests for a Massachusetts medical program. At the same time, he also earned $40,000 a year full-time coordinating the Veterans Administration's methadone program. Dr. Greene also earned another $23,000 working five nights a week for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, where his job description included shoveling human waste. Asked why he worked so much, Greene admitted, "I honestly don't know."

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Thursday, March 22, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#665)

A REMINDER: BARS DO NOT A PRISON MAKE

When Brainerd, Minnesota, railroad worker George Libera's job was totally eliminated, he remained on payroll and was paid about $100 a day, from 1984 to 1999. He "earned" his money sitting in an empty room from 7 A.M. to 3:00 P.M., 5 days a week. While sitting there, 40 hours a week, he was forbidden to play cards, read or nap.

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Friday, March 23, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#666)

YE OLDE BIRTH CONTROL PILLS WERE NOT AVAILABLE BACK THEN

In the New England colonies of early America, if a couple's child was born too soon after the wedding, the law required both parents spend from ten to sixty days in the stocks or the pillory. A family appointed by the church took care of the infant, so its parents could hang out in a public place.

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Saturday, March 24, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#667)

A ROBBER ROBBING A ROBBER

A gunman entered the Pompano Beach (Florida) Community Correctional Center and robbed an inmate at gun point, one serving time for armed-robbery, leaving with personal items, a TV set, stereo and radio. Still shocked by the audacity of the act, the prison superintendent stated, "If you are not safe in prison from armed robbery, where are you safe?"

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Sunday, March 25, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#668)

EIGHTEEN WRECKS!!!

WFAA-TV (Channel 8) reported in the fall of 2004, Dallas Police Deputy Chief Zach Belton was under investigation by the department after his 18th vehicle crash. His latest accident had happened as he rear-ended another vehicle.

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Monday, March 26, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#669)

DO THEY MAKE IT THEIR BUSINESS IN ORDER TO RETAIN POWER?

A law in Iraq, at least before Hussein's departure, decreed any married man or woman who committed adultery while marital sex was available, would be stoned to death. Iraq legislators increased the penalty by adding an addendum that only smaller stones could be used, in order for the offenders to suffer longer before being knocked unconscious.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#670)

HE, BLOODY WELL, BEGAN TO SPEAK AGAIN

While Albertville, Alabama, paramedics rushed to help Ray Collins, he watched as blood gushed from his arm, after falling through a glass door. During those minutes, he began talking again for the first time since an auto accident silenced him seventeen years earlier.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#671)

PERHAPS THEY WERE READING THIS NEWSPAPER WHILE WALKING?

In Beijing, China, the Economic Daily newspaper reported that within one year more than 200 pedestrians in that Chinese capital fell down uncovered manholes in the streets. That's because thieves had stolen more than 2,000 of the 132-pound covers, which could be resold for 100 yuan (About $12 US).

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, March 29, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#672)

THAT'LL TEACH HER, BY GOSH

Breaking up with his girlfriend was more than Anthony Dyke could take. Standing in his parent's New York City living room, he poured gasoline over his body and set himself on fire. Fire Department official John Mulligan said the suicide victim must have changed his mind immediately. And that's probably why he rushed towards the bathroom, to use the shower. The fire gutted the entire house, burning to death his mother, stepfather and stepsister. (Five other relatives were also injured.)

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Friday, March 30, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#673)

THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE THINGS OTHER GUYS PRAY FOR

Monks at the Macheras Monastery, 25 miles west of Nicosia, capital of Cyprus, were so disgusted seeing "seminude" tourists visit their Holy habitat, they hired Group 4, a British security firm, to stop those wearing shorts, miniskirts and T-shirts from entering.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, March 31, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#674)

THAT'D MAKE AN ENCORE PERFORMANCE DIFFICULT

The Chinese newspaper Wen Hui Boa reported that a dance troupe performing near Wuzhou City was told by a village leader their show was boring, and if the female dancers did not remove their clothing, the audience would not pay and the dancers would be attacked. When the demands were rejected, much of the audience stormed the stage and assaulted the performers. Even worse, the guitarist was beaten to death and his corpse dragged away, not to be found for three days.

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Sunday, April 01, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#675)

A GREAT WAY TO TEACH BOYS TO RESPECT WOMEN, NOT

A law in Luanda, Angola, demands all prostitutes go topless. According to officials this will guide young men away from homosexual liaisons. (Definitely not a good town to open a HOOTER'S franchise.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, April 02, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#676)

EVENTUALLY, THEY'LL "PULL HIS PLUG" PERMANENTLY

Gary Star, 47, was convicted of murdering his own 20-year-old daughter, and sentenced to death. His only request was to be sent to death row as quickly as possible. What was his hurry? The State Correctional Institute of Pittsburgh, where he was being held, allowed no televisions. On death row, Star could watch all his favorite television shows. (Like, perhaps, old reruns of Father Knows Best, Make Room for Daddy and Father of the Bride?)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#677)

THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT CAME IN 12 YEARS LATER

In 1978, three years after the Vietnam War, from which thousands of American soldiers returned home without arms and legs, the movie Coming Home premiered in San Francisco, graphically showing the problems of these disabled heroes. Unfortunately, the theatre was located on a second floor, inaccessible to the handicapped.

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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#678)

WONDER IF HE HAD ANY SICK DAYS COMING?

In 1986, a New York Transit Authority supervisor, William Uhrin, convinced the Queens subway yard he was working at the Bronx facility, and convinced the Bronx facility he was working at the Queens yard. A year later, bored at home, Uhrin tried to resign, got caught and fired.

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Thursday, April 05, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#679)

HOW DID THEY FIND QUALIFIED WORKERS FOR THAT JOB?

On Christmas weekend in 1989, the temperature dropped below freezing in Jacksonville, Florida, causing officials to hire 23 workers to occasionally flush 503 toilets in the Gator Bowl until game time the following day.

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Friday, April 06, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#680)

HE MUST DIAGNOSE HIS LEFT FROM HIS RIGHT

In Bahrain when a male doctor exams a woman's body, he is never allowed to look directly at her naked skin, and must always do his examinations while staring at his patient's image in a mirror.

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Saturday, April 07, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#681)

THIS COMPANY TOOK A DIM VIEW OF LIGHT THEFT

In 1984, a construction company in Saipan, North Marianas, had one of its flashing amber signs stolen from a road construction site. The company placed an ad in a local paper explaining the lights warned motorists to slow down and were very important to avoid accidents. They had removed the remaining warning lights and stated "we are not going to install them again unless we are sure they will not be stolen."

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, April 08, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#682)

DON'T BLAME HIM, INTERCOURSE CONTAINS ELEVEN LETTERS

A weatherman stationed for two years above Hudson Bay in northern Canada became so bored he took an old Royal Air Force bulldozer, along with survey equipment, and began a monstrous job of rearranging tons of boulders, earth and ice. More than a decade later, from planes flying as high as 27,000 feet, the word he formed could still be read. That four-letter word began with a colossal "F" and ended in an equally sized "K."

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, April 09, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#683)

HE TRIED TO "FEATHER THEIR NESTS" WITH CHICKEN MONEY

On the floor of the Texas legislature in 1989, Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, head of the second largest chicken production and packaging company in the South, handed out checks in the amount of $10,000 to several lawmakers while a debate was going on over an increase in workers compensation. But Bo made sure everyone knew those checks were not bribery, only "name recognition."

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#684)

THESE FACELESS BUREAUCRATS SHOULD KISS THEIR OWN BUTTS

Hoping to slow the spread of herpes B, and cut the birth rate, the Peoples Republic of China outlawed kissing. Red China's Workers Daily warned readers: "We must rid ourselves of this nasty kissing habit."

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#685)

THIS THIEF ALSO STOLE SOME OF THE COUNCILMAN'S CREDIBILITY

Roland Tucker, a Dallas City Councilman known as a strong crusader against crime, worked diligently collecting as much information as possible to help him make it illegal for drivers to leave their keys in their cars. Unfortunately, all his research and documentation was stolen, along with his car, after he forgot and left his keys in the ignition.

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#686)

LET'S MOSEY ON DOWN AND SIP OURSELVES A MERLOT, PARDONER

That old image of Texans being beer drinking "good ole boys" has changed quite a bit over the last couple of decades. Today, a wide variety of drinks are popular in the Friendship State. FYI: The highest volume liquor sales of any one store in Texas is Goody-Goody liquor in Addison, Texas. That building holds a wholesale inventory of stock worth $3.5 million.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, April 13, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#687)

"YOU SCRATCH MY BACK, I'LL SCRATCH YOURS"

DC-3 World War II cargo planes are favorites with international drug smugglers, who use them to transport countless tons of marijuana and other drugs into the USA. Where do the drug cartels purchase these hard to buy classics? From U.S. Government Custom Services, of course. Often the same planes are put up for auction three, four, five times, only to be sold each time to known drug transporters. Some, in fact, are re-auctioned to different members of the same gang that originally had them confiscated. (Would any powerful, well funded organization, government and/or criminal, put itself deliberately out of business?)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, April 14, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#688)

TO BUILD ANTICIPATION FOR DURING SCHOOL HOURS?

A word-for-word direct quote from a September 2004 Reader's Digest (Pg. 163): "Parents, if your child chooses to come to the library in the mornings before school starts, remember that students need to bring a book with them when they come. Many students are coming to the library and trying to take books off the shelves to read."

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, April 15, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#689)

HIS DRINKING TOO MUCH MADE OTHERS GO THIRSTY

In Speedway, Indiana, police arrested Max Williams on DUI charges. At the jail, Mr. Williams was allowed one phone call, and one phone call only. Within minutes of that call, phones began ringing, and communications chaos broke loose, as hundreds of callers demanded their water be turned back on. That's when police remembered Max Williams was the supervisor of Speedway's water department.

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Monday, April 16, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#690)

BET HE SLIPPED AWAY IN SHAME

Night shift workers at the Vauxhall automobile factory in Ellesmere Port, England, celebrated the Christmas season by getting drunk, drunk and drunker, during their shift, until total destruction broke out. Workers danced on cars, tearing up five beyond repair, overturned two tow trucks, ripped up an office, and stripped a fellow worker naked, before covering him with grease. (And nothing was found published indicating anyone was fired?)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#691)

WONDER IF THIS PENALTY INCLUDES A "STIFF" FINE?

ABC's Paul Harvey News reported in November of 2004, California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill which raised the penalty for those who commit necrophilia (i.e., performing a sex act on a dead person).

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#692)

HIS "SECOND CHANCE" LASTED ABOUT 10-MINUTES

In 1988, Seattle's Judge Philip Killien decided to release an 18-year-old man charged with driving a stolen car, "to give him another chance." The defendant was so happy to be free, he rushed out onto the court house parking lot and quickly "hot-wired" a car. Unfortunately, and by pure chance, that car belonged to Judge Philip Killien.

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#693)

A MALE GORILLA WHO ACTED "PIGGY"

Columbus, Ohio, zoo officials were mystified to find their two female gorillas refusing to breast-feed their babies. Trying to encourage these mothers' natural instincts, the area was closed off to the public, and a human mother with a new baby was hired to demonstrate for the primates. Of the three gorillas, only the male noticed, and he became so hypnotized, it took a large bunch of bananas to lead him away.

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Friday, April 20, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#694)

AND MAY THE JUDGE "THROW" THE BOOK AT THEM

New Jersey residents David Domanski, 25, and Michael Havekost, 18, loved volunteering their help to the local fire department's rescue team. In fact, they enjoyed it so much, they were caught throwing 15-20 pound chunks of concrete from an overpass, down on top of cars driven along Interstate 78.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, April 21, 2007 - Illness

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Sunday, April 22, 2007 - Illness

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Monday, April 23, 2007 - Illness

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Tuesday, April 24, 2007- Illness

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Thursday, April 26, 2007 - Illness

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Friday, April 27, 2007 - Illness

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Saturday, April 28, 2007 - Illness

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Sunday, April 29, 2007 - Illness

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Tuesday, May 08, 2007- Illness

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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 - Illness

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Thursday, May 10, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#695)

A GOOD WORD PROCESSOR WOULD'VE HELPED

Sutoku, Emperor of Japan in the 12th century, spent three years in total exile to copy the Lankauarn Sutra, a Buddhist religious work containing about 10,500 words, using only his blood as ink.

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Friday, May 11, 2007 - Illness

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Saturday, May 12, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#696)

THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH, REVEALED

Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) painted The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq in 1642, which showed 18 life-sized guards, and 16 others, at high noon, with bright sun shining down on them. Until the 1940s, the painting was coated with a dark varnish which caused a dulling of the surface and gave the incorrect impression that it depicted a night scene. This darkness caused the painting to be misnamed The Night Watch.

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Sunday, May 13, 2007 - Illness

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Monday, May 14, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#697)

THEY WANTED ALL THEIR GOLD, THAT'S WHAT

When Spanish explorer Francisco Hernández de Córdova first set foot on the Yucatan Peninsula, November 8, 1517, he asked the locals, where had he landed? Not able to speak Spanish, they answered "Yucatan," which in their local lingo meant "What do you want?"

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007- Illness

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#698)

PLEASE TAKE A NUMBER IN ORDER TO ROB THIS STORE

Five men attempting to rob a Robert Hall clothing store in Indianapolis, Indiana, discovered another gang of five men were already robbing it. When someone's gun fired, both groups rapidly gathered what suits they could carry, then fled the store. Only one group was caught.

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Thursday, May 17, 2007 - Illness

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Friday, May 18, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#699)

INDIA: A PREGNANT POOL OF DIS-LINKED COMPREHENSION

In the history of language, it has been estimated about 250 alphabets did or do exist. Half of these in India alone. In some areas of India, it is not uncommon to travel only a few miles, or cross a river, to hear a language spoken the traveler can neither speak or understand. (India also has about 800 different dialects.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, May 19, 2007 - Illness

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Sunday, May 20, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#700)

BEFORE VISA, MASTERCARD AND DISCOVER, THERE WAS TOBACCO

In pre-revolutionary America, tobacco was acceptable as legal tender in several southern colonies. Virginia, in fact, enacted a law that taxes should all be paid in tobacco.

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Monday, May 21, 2007 - Illness

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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#701)

IT'D TAKE MORE THAN PEPTO-BISMOL FOR THIS STOMACH UPSET

The Royal Urchin (Mespilia globulus) fish may only grow to about one foot long, but it can destroy a 20-foot shark, if a shark swallows one. Once the Urchin fish enters the powerful predator's stomach, it blows up its sharp prickly body, much like an inflating balloon, then rips the shark's stomach from the inside out, before floating away leisurely.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#702)

BACK THEN, YOU COULD SMOKE AND HANG YOUR ARM OUT THE WINDOW

On October 8, 1929, for the first time in aviation history, Transcontinental Air Transport showed its passengers a newsreel and two cartoons.

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Thursday, May 24, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#703)

(S)LIGHTLY (P)ECULIAR (C)ARING (A)SSOCIATION

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals filed charges in Maidenhead, England, against David Sharod for abandoning his two exotic fish for three days, while on holiday. The government then spent 6,000 GBP ($11,850 USD/8,808 EUR) prosecuting the case, while he used 3,000 GBP ($5,925 USD/4,404 EUR) defending himself. Finally, after Mr. Sharod showed the judge the SPCA's own literature, stating fish can live comfortably on algae in a tank his size for up to two weeks, he was acquitted. (A dinner of fish 'n' chips would've been a lot cheaper.)

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Friday, May 25, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#704)

WONDER WHAT THIS DOG DOES TO SMOKERS?

When Joseph Vellone, of Norwalk, Connecticut, opened his car door at a red light, then leaned out to spit tobacco juice, his 8-month-old German Shepherd, Ebony, pushed him completely out. While the dog sat in the driver's seat, the car then cruised through the light, and the intersection, stopping after crashing into a building.

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Saturday, May 26, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#705)

HE MIGHT BE CRAZY, BUT HE AIN'T STUPID

Even though Henry Leroy Hensen, 34, was both handcuffed and wore leg irons, he was still able to escape by casually jumping rope right out the front door of Patton State Mental Hospital in San Bernardino County, California. His attorney explained to the judge, Mr. Hensen made his jump rope during a hospital macrame class.

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Sunday, May 27, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#706)

HOW MUCH IS HUMAN LIFE WORTH?

In September 2004, the National Transportation Board decided a way to reduce deaths on American highways was to equip all new autos with warning lights to tell the driver if any tires' air pressure went below a certain minimum. But large tire companies sued and blocked these mileage-friendly regulations. (Proving again, a profitable product is more important than a human being?)

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Monday, May 28, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#707)

YOU'RE GOING TO NEED A HANKY FOR THIS ONE

Between 1892 and 1902, "Tim", a small mongrel dog, met each and every train which entered London's Paddington Station, to beg for coins for the Widows' and Orphans' Fund, to be placed into the slotted collection can strapped to his neck collar. Upon that dog's death, his body was stuffed, then displayed in a glass case at the station, with a slot for coins, so the dog could continue its job.

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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#708)

ART, FART, THEY AIN'T THAT SMART

In 1961, after the Museum of Modern Art in New York, with great expertise, purchased an abstract painted by Henri Matisse (entitled Le Bateau) they made the mistake of hanging it upside down. No one noticed for 47 days, until more than 100,000 people had seen it without noticing the difference either.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#709)

A TOTALLY STAY AT HOME MOM

The female hornbill first breeds, then, with her mate's help, seals herself up inside the nest, leaving only a small opening where the male can feed both her and, later, their newborns. Next, she "molts," releasing most of her feathers needed for the nest.

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Thursday, May 31, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#710)

NEED WE SAY MORE?

An international news report from Jerusalem on May 29, 2007: "A man clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leapt through a window of his home and hopped into bed with his sleeping family. Arthur Du Mosch, 49, with Israel's parks protection authority, said the aging cat, which was very weak, would probably be released back into the wild."

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Friday, June 01, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#711)

'TIS NOT HOW WE LAND, BUT HOW WE FLY THAT'S IMPORTANT

On January 17, 1980, Elizabeth Muto was ten-days-old when she was found abandoned in an infant seat inside Reno/Tahoe International Airport. In 2003, she was crowned Miss Black Nevada and then two weeks later, Miss Black USA. Then, in 2004, she won the title of Miss Nevada and went on to represent her state in the Miss America pageant. (Ain't that great!!!)

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Saturday, June 02, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#712)

SUCCESS RUINS SOME FOLKS

David Dunbar Buick sold his Buick Motor Company to William Durant, who used that well built car as the cornerstone to start his financial empire in 1908, General Motors, while Buick died totally broke. Buick often said how strange to see his name on cars everywhere, while he, himself, could not even afford to buy an old used one, originally built at his own company.

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Sunday, June 03, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#713)

KNOW WHY "SQUEALERS" ARE CALLED STOOL PIGEONS?

Around the turn of the 20th century, shotgun shooting "sportsmen" would nail the feet of passenger pigeons to wooden planks (i.e., stools), so they would scream and attract other pigeons within earshot. Showing concern, other pigeons would fly in by the thousands, only to be killed with barrages of pellets until their species became extinct, while many thousands of their rotting bodies were still decomposing in corn and wheat fields in the southern United States.

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Monday, June 04, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#714)

HERE'S A DENSE SUBJECT

Absolutely nothing is solid. If all space were removed between atomic particles (converting everything to a neutron state) it would be so dense one cubic inch would weigh around 1,800 million tons.

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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#715)

AN EMBARRASSMENT TO BOTH HIS STATE AND NATION

In former press secretary George Reedy's biography of the 36th president of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1979), he states, "(LBJ) had the instincts of a sultan in Istanbul. In 1950 one of his many sex partners, Madeline Brown, became pregnant and gave birth to a son, Steve. LBJ had an apartment rented for her, and for twenty-two years they continued the relationship." (FYI: Lyndon Johnson, a vain, crude and vulgar man, when possible only allowed his homely mug be photographed from his "best side." Whichever?)

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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#716)

WE ARE ALL NOT CREATED EQUAL

Indians who inhabit the Andes Mountains of South America are able to live comfortably in rarefied air as high as 17,000 feet above sea-level. This is because their lungs and heart are larger, their veins contain about two pints more blood than sea-level folks, their arms and legs are shorter and a fold of skin helps keep their eyes from freezing.

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Thursday, June 07, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#717)

"I'D LIKE A HAIRCUT, A SHAVE, AND MY CANCEROUS LEG REMOVED"

The red and white barber pole came into being when barbers were still performing surgery as well as cutting hair. After an operation the barber would often hang his blood-soaked white towels out to dry in front of his shop, where the wind would blow them around the drying pole, giving off a white-and-red striped effect.

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Friday, June 08, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#718)

AND THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE WORSE THEY GET

Much loved U.S. humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935): "Half the people in the U.S. are living on interest paid by people who will never get the last mortgage paid." (And, over 75 years later, today's house-of-credit-cards is far more unstable.)

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Saturday, June 09, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#719)

HE HAD HIS CUSTOMERS FOAMING AT THE MOUTH

Ten customers who ordered a popular drink (called a "Watermelon Spot") at a nightclub in Topeka, Kansas, were rushed to a hospital because, instead of watermelon schnapps, the bartender accidentally used a similar looking bottle, this one containing dishwashing liquid.

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Sunday, June 10, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#720)

AUTO TRIVIA

Henry Ford did not invent the automobile, only the assembly line process. (And, probably only modified that technique from other known applications.) The first car manufactured in Detroit was made by Charles King in 1896. By 1898, there were at least 50 automobile manufacturing plants in the U.S. It was probably Karl Benz from Germany who created the first true gasoline powered automobile in 1885/1886.

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Monday, June 11, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#721)

THIS GUY REALLY WAS A PARTY "ANIMAL"

Kansas City Missouri Police entered the property of Robert Berdella in 1988 to find a human skull (still rotting) buried in his yard. Inside the house they found another skull (this one meatless), as well as torture devices and photos of people being tortured. Police had been tipped off by a nude man, wearing only a dog collar with a red leash attached, claiming he had escaped from that same house while he was being prepared to die.

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#722)

BUT DID ANYONE EVEN NOTICE, OR CARE?

The movie Caesar and Cleopatra released in 1946 was a feat in perfectionism. In one example, for a night scene staged at the Sphinx, designers of the set had to show hundreds of stars in the sky over the Egyptian desert in the exact position they would have been in the year 45 B.C.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#723)

PROVING SOME COUPLES WOULD VOTE TO BE APART

The 51 million people living in Turkey in 1987 were asked by their government to remain home on July 12th. On that day, officials would be coming door-to-door compiling an updated voter's role. So many stayed home, in fact, on that day police all across that nation were swamped with reports of domestic violence.

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Thursday, June 14, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#724)

COULD HIS BED WIN AN OSCAR FOR BEST SUPPORTING?

Pop artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) filmed a movie using only one actor. This highly natural work of art was titled Sleep. It showed a man sleeping in bed and, from start to finish, took eight full hours to film.

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Friday, June 15, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#725)

TWO EGGS OVER WITH HAM

Police in Amarillo, Texas, filed a report from a woman claiming a tall man pushed her into an elevator, while saying, "There is nothing they can do to stop me." He then spun her around, according to the woman, raised her dress, and smashed two raw eggs, one on each cheek of her buttocks.

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Saturday, June 16, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#726)

IF THEY HAD NECKS THEY'D GET SORE WATCHING TENNIS

Some species of flatfish have both eyes on the left side (sinistral), others have both eyes on the right (dextral). These fish include flounder, halibut, sole and turbot.

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Sunday, June 17, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#727)

NO PARTY ANIMALS FOR HAPPY HOUR HERE

Gazelles, prairie dogs and wild asses, among other animals, don't drink water or any other liquids. These animals' bodies use a chemical process called Cellular Respiration, which changes the needed amount of solid food into liquid.

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Monday, June 18, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#728)

A STATUE BY ANY OTHER NAME REMAINS THE SAME

In memory of José Olmedo, Ecuador's most famous poet, a large statue was dedicated to him in the Plaza of Guayaquil. In truth though, the statue is of England's great poet Lord Byron. That's because the persons in charge of the city's "art and aesthetics" found the money saving figure of Byron in a London junk shop.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#729)

SO WHAT? CROOKS OFTEN WIN ELECTIONS, DON'T THEY?

His name being misspelled on public records allowed David Dilorio, 31, to be appointed to the North Providence, Rhode Island, fire department, eight years after being found guilty and sentenced for arson.

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#730)

HE WAS A PARTY ANIMAL, A NAZI PARTY ANIMAL

German Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler (1889-1945) owned 9,000 acres of land in Colorado (U.S.A.). His favorite movie was King Kong. And his favorite song was Walt Disney's Who's Afraid of The Big, Bad Wolf?

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Thursday, June 21, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#731)

WHAT A GRAND FACADE HE/SHE CREATED

Well-known jazz musician Billy Tipton died in 1989, leaving behind an ex-wife and three adopted sons. While the funeral home prepared the body, they discovered the 74-year-old piano/saxophonist was really a woman. When told, one of Tipton's sons said, "He'll always be Dad."

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Friday, June 22, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#732)

NOW YOU KNOW

Englishman Charles Cunningham Boycott was a managing agent, bossing an Irish estate for the absentee owner, the Earl of Erne. In 1880, he opposed the demands for reform by the Irish Land League (fair rent, fixity of tenure and free sale), resulting in the peasants refusing to work for him. The League launched a campaign of isolation against him in the local community and they harassed him until he fled Ireland. And, this is where the term "boycott" began.

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Saturday, June 23, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#733)

THEY SCRATCHED THEIR HEADS AND CAME UP WITH AN IDEA

The German Education Ministry reported an undisclosed number of students in Stuttgart were paying up to the equivalent of $2.60 (each) for head lice so they would get kicked out of school.

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Sunday, June 24, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#734)

THESE WOMEN NEED HOCKEY PLAYING/FIGHTING HUSBANDS

Two Seattle SuperSonics basketball players, Dale Harris and Alton Lister, finished a game in 1988, just in time to watch their wives have a hair-pulling, eye-gouging, knockdown fight over which of their husbands made the largest salary.

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Monday, June 25, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#735)

A TRUE MAN OF INSIGHT

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), both a Hindu reformer and powerful political leader in the twentieth century, often voiced a higher knowledge filled with compassion and human kindness. Concerning world peace, he said, "If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with women." (Testosterone, perhaps, is man's weakest link to eternity?)

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#736)

U.S. TAXPAYERS SHOULD GET STEAMED OVER THIS

In 1988, the General Accounting office reported the Army had purchased 6,338 steam cleaners for tanks at $15,000 each, for a total of near $95 million. But because they were very loud, they could not be used in combat areas. And, environmental regulations prohibit their use in peacetime.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#737)

WHAT A CRAPPY THEME FOR A RESTAURANT

In 1986, Gordon and Jesmine Geisbrecht, from Winnipeg, Manitoba, opened a restaurant named "The Outhouse." Toilet bowls were scattered between tables, and a toilet seat logo appeared on the menus. But health inspectors shut them down for not having enough working toilets for their customers.

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Thursday, June 28, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#738)

HE PICTURED GETTING ARRESTED OVER CAMERA THEFT

At a convention for crime detection experts in Atlanta, a thief was about to steal almost $9,000 worth of cameras and accessories from an unoccupied booth, when a security guard walked up. With no other choice but jail, the crook gave a 45-minute presentation on the high quality of the products, then walked away with them.

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Friday, June 29, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#739)

WHAT'D THEY HAVE, FAMILY REUNIONS, OR ORGIES?

Cleopatra VII (69-30 B.C.), Queen of the Nile (51-30 B.C.), was not an Egyptian but a Greek. She descended from a line of brother-sister marriages, she herself marrying two of her own brothers.

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Saturday, June 30, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#740)

JUMP-STARTING MOM INTO A GRAVE

Myrtle Reid, of Santa Clara County, California, was an 84-year-old heart patient, when her adopted son decided to speedup his inheritance of her $350,000 estate. To do this, he pretended to be her doctor over the phone, telling her to stop taking all her heart medications, and to jump up-and-down for 15-minutes each morning to keep her heart pumping.

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Sunday, July 01, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#741)

EVEN BACK THEN NOTHING WAS FREE

Automobile advertising in the media (i.e., TV, newspapers, magazines, etc.), even 20 years ago, cost each new car buyer between $700 and $1,500 more per vehicle, on an average purchase.

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Monday, July 02, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#742)

WONDER WHAT HIS DRUG OF CHOICE WAS?

John Cardinale, 39, a third-grade teacher in New York City, stood on a crowded subway platform at the Canal Street subway station and said, "Push, push, push," before shoving the lady in front of him onto the tracks just in time for a fast moving train to crush her to death.

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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#743)

THEY JUMP RIGHT ON A CHANCE TO FREEZE ALL WINTER

Some amphibians, certain species of frogs, for instance, go into a state of suspended animation during winter. At that time, up to half their body's water will freeze. Yet, come the first thaw of spring, they hop away, apparently totally refreshed.

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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#744)

LOOK WHAT A "FINE" MESS HE GOT HIMSELF INTO

Seeing a car being driven recklessly without headlights, Henri Berard of Vancouver, British Columbia, immediately made a U-turn and rushed off to find a patrol car. That's when he was caught on police radar, speeding, which meant a fine of $35, plus no driver's license $35, failing to show registration $15. Then, when he got to the station to pay his fines, another $15 for not paying an old parking ticket.

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Thursday, July 05, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#745)

REMEMBER EVERYONE, GIVE 'TILL IT HURTS

November 12, 1985, China officially kicked off two weeks of burning all charity items donated from humanitarian governments from around the world. To kindle the first of fourteen fires, soldiers ignited 20 tons of donated used clothing.

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Friday, July 06, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#746)

THEY NEEDED HUGE PANCAKES TO MOP UP THIS MESS

On January 15, 1919, a tanker filled with more than 2,000,000 gallons of molasses exploded in Boston, killing 21 and injuring 50. Many had tried swimming away, only to find themselves moving as "slow as molasses", until it filled their noses and mouths, causing suffocation.

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Saturday, July 07, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#747)

OKAY, WHAT ABOUT A "YIELD" SIGN ON THEIR DERRIERES?

Police in Sussex, England, suggested, for women's safety, they wear miniskirts at night when walking along darkened roadways. This, the police insisted, would allow the women's presence to be reflected off their naked legs.

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Sunday, July 08, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#748)

WHAT WOULD YOU GET A MOTHER LIKE THIS FOR MOTHER'S DAY?

Houston police discovered John Parks, 65, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Next to his death bed, sitting in a rocking chair, was the body of his long dead 89-year-old mother. Medical Examiners estimated she had been dead for at least a year.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, July 09, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#749)

THESE MEN HAD FROZEN HEARTS

At least in olden times, Eskimos often swapped wives, but usually for practical reasons. If a hunter were taking a long journey, for instance, and his wife had a very young child, he'd swap his wife with a neighbor, so neither had to do without a cook or sexual outlet.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#750)

LET'S ADD EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE, "I AM NOT A CROOK."

Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994), 37th President of the United States (1969-74), was known to have ego issues, big time. Three examples from him: (1) "I would have made a good pope." (2) "I rate myself a deeply committed pacifist." And... (3) "When the President does it, that means it is not illegal."

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#751)

GREAT PLACE TO OPEN A CHEWING TOBACCO FRANCHISE

Spitting among the Masai tribesmen of Tanzania is important to their social interactions. Newborn children are spat upon for luck. Masai spit on friends when they meet, then spit on one another again to say good-bye. When traders make a deal, they spit on each other to make it final.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#752)

THEN THEY NEEDED A BEARD TO HIDE THE SCARS

Peter the Great (1672-1725) Tsar of Russia (1682-1725), wanted his countrymen to adopt Western ways. Since beards were not popular in Europe, he started taxing all beards. When that didn't discourage beard growth enough, he decreed all men wearing beards would be held down and shaven with a blunt razor, or have their whiskers removed one-by-one with a set of pincers.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, July 13, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#753)

THE MAN WHO STARTED THIS COMPANY WAS NO "DIP"

In 1932, Elmer Doolin, a Texan, bought a corn chip recipe from a cook in a San Antonio cafe. He then began production in his mother's kitchen, at peak, making up to ten pounds per hour. As popularity increased, Doolin invented an automatic chip maker, and moved his "Frito" production into a separate building. In 1945, the Frito Company granted H.W. Lay and Co. an exclusive franchise to manufacture and distribute FRITOS in the Southeast. Then, in September 1961, the two companies merged to become Frito-Lay, Inc.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, July 14, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#754)

AND MAY EACH AND EVERY CHILD SUFFER CAVITIES

Raymond Nott, 65, of East San Jose, California, had a heart attack and died in his home, which was in the back of a candy store. Three days later, after word of his death had spread through the neighborhood, fifty to sixty children broke in and cleaned the shelves of every piece of candy there.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, July 15, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#755)

THEY BLEW SMOKE AT A VERY YOUNG AGE

At least in earlier times, Eskimo men were usually very proud when their three-to-four-year-old sons mastered smoking a pipe "just like dear old dad." The daughters, however, were forbidden the "pleasure" of that unhealthy habit.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, July 16, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#756)

ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO EAT

In 1980, Naomi and Ruth Schreiner were found in their Columbus, Ohio, home dead from starvation. Police said there was absolutely no food items in the house, but did find plates on the women's dining room table containing little rolls of newspaper, indicating they had tried to eat an old edition of that city's newspaper.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#757)

DON'T YOU HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE FORGET WHO YOU ARE?

Glasgow police arrested William Gillen, 26, for trying to rob a bank. When placed in a lineup, none of the witnesses could identify him.....until he opened his mouth, with "Hey, don't you recognize me?"

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#758)

YOU CAN BET HE WON'T TRY THIS STUNT AGAIN

In 1988, Christopher Paulsen, 26, lost a $1 bet when he attempted to swim through an underwater tunnel linking two swimming pools in Portland, Oregon. He also drowned.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, July 19, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#759)

YOU CAN FLUSH OVER THESE FACTS

First city in the U.S. with modern waterworks was Philadelphia (1820). Boston was the first to have a modern sewage system (1823) and the first American hotel with modern bathrooms: The Tremont House (1829). The first to sit proudly on a modern toilet installed in the White House was John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), sixth President of the United States (1825-1829) . (That's why old slang says "quincy" for toilet.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, July 20, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#760)

A VERY LOW SURVIVAL RATE

The Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) spawn the most eggs of any creature on earth, about 300 million, yet they are lucky if two or more survive. If most did reach maturity, there would soon be no room for water in the ocean. As adults, they are also the largest bony fish, averaging 1000 kilograms (over 2200 pounds).

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, July 21, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#761)

FINALLY, DRIVE-IN DENTISTRY; ABOUT TIME

Los Angeles resident Giuseppe Logreco, 48, drove through the wall of his dentist's office, pinning one patient to the reception desk. When police arrived, Logreco told them he was upset because he had been unable to get an appointment for a month.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, July 22, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#762)

HERE'S A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE

In theory, at least, if the earth was smooth and dry, and a person could walk 24/7, at a good average speed, they could walk around the world in less than a year. A bullet from a rifle would take about 14 hours, a beam of light less than two-tenths of a second.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, July 23, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#763)

80 CUSTOMERS FOR 20 YEARS = 19,200 PAYMENTS BEHIND

According to ABC's Paul Harvey News, a cable company in Charleston, West Virginia, discovered 80 of their television cables connected inside a building, which occupants never paid for... not even one bill for almost 20 years of service. The building was West Virginia's State Building.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#764)

PRAISE BOB!

South African ex-policeman, Barend Strydom, 23, said he prayed to Jesus Christ for his approval before shooting to death eight helpless black citizens. When Jesus did not appear, Strydom said, he knew he had his blessing.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#765)

HAD HE LIVED LONGER, WOULD THE VIETNAM WAR HAVE CONTINUED?

Thirty-fifth U.S. president John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) could make a point. Example: "When writing in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other represents opportunity."

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#766)

BUT TRAFFIC JAMS WITH HORSES WOULD STINK WORSE

After Henry Ford (1863-1947) made it possible for almost anyone to own and drive a car, he retired at an early age and took to sailing to avoid the traffic jams he had created.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, July 27, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#767)

WHEN HIS VIEW-WINDOW TURNS COLOR, TIME TO CHANGE SUITS

Here are direct quotes from an official NASA transcript of a conversation between astronauts John Young and Charles Duke during the moon launch on April 21, 1972: Young: "I got the farts again, I got 'em again, Charlie. I don't know what the hell gives them to me."; Duke: "(unintelligible)"; Young: "Certainly not...I think it's acid in the stomach. I really do."

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, July 28, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#768)

A GLASS OF THIS WOULD REALLY SETTLE YOUR STOMACH

The white dwarf star A.C. 70 8247 is about 36 million times more dense than water. A cubic inch of matter from this star would weigh about 650 tons (1,300,000 pounds).

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, July 29, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#769)

SHE WAS CRUSHED PHYSICALLY, HE, EMOTIONALLY

E.C. Boone, 83, of Kalama, Washington, hit a dog with his pickup truck. He immediately stopped and his 86-year-old wife, May Belle, went back to see if the dog survived. Police chief Ron Pease said Mr. Boone then backed up and ran over Mrs. Boone. Hearing her screams from under his truck, he then drove forward, crushing her.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, July 30, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#770)

WHILE 'GOLF WIDOWS' SAT HOME WITH AMOROUS THOUGHTS

"It looketh like a silly game. I'll not have our brave boys beating up the pasture with a stick, when they could be practicing with their trusty bows-and-arrows," said King James IV (1473-1513). He then outlawed golf, until some time later, when he tried it.....and liked it.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#771)

A SUCCESSFUL MAN YOU CAN LOOK DOWN TO

Handicapped "Eddie the Monkey Man" Bernstein died in his sleep in Pensacola, Florida. That's when it was discovered he was not just a legless, homeless derelict, but a successful businessman (beggar by profession) with an estate of over $691, 000. During warm weather he begged full time in Washington, D.C., and in winter he'd fly down to Florida to spend his days in the sun, reading the Wall Street Journal.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#772)

NO CHECK, NO CASHING FEE, NO BANK ACCOUNT, NO DEBIT, NO ATM

Richard Sears started his own watch selling business in 1886. In 1887 he hired Alvah C. Roebuck, and Sears Roebuck mail order began laying the foundation for the largest retailer of it's time. Most unusual, for over 70 years (at least through 1959), no rank-and-file employees ever received a pay check. Only cash. (And no pay envelope contained more than one $1 bill. The denominations were $1-$2-$5-$20-$50.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, August 02, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#773)

NO MATTER HOW HARD HE WORKED, HE'D COME OUT IN THE HOLE

In almost fifty years of grave digging, Johann Heinrich Karl Thieme, of Aldenburg, Germany, dug an estimated 23,311 graves. In 1826, Thieme was unable to dig his own grave, so his understudy took over.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, August 03, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#774)

THIS PANEL NEEDED A PANEL TO CHECK ITSELF OUT

In 1986, a world history curriculum designed for students to react to the genocide of Jews during World War II, was criticized by a U.S. Department of Education panel as being biased and "unfair" to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. This report stated, "The program gives no evidence of balance or objectivity."

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, August 04, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#775)

HERE'S A REAL JOB CRUSH

Alice E. Rossell, 56, of Guemeville, California, won a football pot at the apple cannery where she worked. To celebrate, she passed out donuts to fellow workers. But while doing so, she became distracted, letting her sleeve become snagged on the gears of a large machine and was crushed to death.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, August 05, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#776)

BET THIS GUY COULDN'T EVEN SPELL S-T-U-P-I-D

Bruce Jay Weiss of Hadley, New York, got angry with the family cat for urinating on the carpet. So angry, he tried poking the animal with the butt of his loaded .16-gauge shotgun, which discharged. Weiss was 28.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, August 06, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#777)

WITHOUT THESE, THEIR MIGHT BE NO DIP TODAY

Cooking for a restaurant in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1853, George Crum had a customer who complained his french fries were too thick. So, for this repeat customer, Crum began serving them paper-thin. Before long, other customers wanted theirs the same, so George Crum's "Saratoga Chips" began production. Soon he had many copycats, who helped him make the potato chip "America's snack."

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#778)

THIS WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED IN A GORILLA SUIT

A Seattle, Washington, radio station hired Bob Holt, 20, to walk around downtown wearing a brightly colored duck suit, to advertise their station. And, wearing those bright colors, he did draw attention, especially from a thug. This angry individual spun Holt around by one wing, ripped off his duck bill, then beat him over the head with it. "I didn't speak to him, I didn't flap my wings at him, I didn't do anything," Holt told police.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#779)

PERHAPS THEY WERE PLAYING STRIP POKER?

A story in the New China News in 1976, gave close details as to how the wife of Mao Tse-Tung, Jiang Qing, reacted to the news that her husband was dying. It appears the soon to be widow showed no emotion, and continued to play poker 200 miles from his deathbed in Shensi province, while a plane sat ready to return her to Peking. Finally, her fellow players convinced her it might not look good if she continued to ignore the situation.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, August 09, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#780)

GOOD THING HE DIDN'T MESS HIS PANTS

The city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was sued by Terry and Deborah Shook because their son's second grade teacher forced him to lick up his saliva from the playground as punishment for spitting.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, August 10, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#781)

WONDER WHO HAD THE GUTS TO CLEAN THAT MESS UP?

The Dallas Morning News reported on October 14, 2004, that a truck load of pig entrails had sloshed from a gut truck, which was hauling them to a dog food plant near Little Rock, Arkansas. The tractor-trailer's operator, Billy Day, 55, said he was forced to stop quickly, causing the 1,000 pounds of innards to gush up-over the top of his cab onto the highway.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, August 11, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#782)

COMMONALITY IS COMMONLY COMMON

The outer layer of skin on the human body replaces itself in 28 days. The human female completes her menstrual cycle in 28 days. And, the moon circles the earth in 28 days.

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Sunday, August 12, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#783)

SHE WAS A REAL HOT HEAD

In 1988, standing at a bus stop in Columbia, South Carolina, in 96-degree heat, Edna Sims' hair burst into flames. She sued the makers of two hair-care products, claiming they contained combustibles. (For a couple weeks after that fire, all she could have were "bad skull days.")

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, August 13, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#784)

GUESS THEY DEVELOPED BETTER CORPSES THAT WAY?

When Ethiopia suffered an extreme famine in 1984, many countries donated food, medicine and clothing. But the Russians sent athletic advisers to help develop aerobics training programs. (Yeah, like pick-up-food-put-in-mouth.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#785)

SHE DID IT FOR THE PUBLICITY, NO DOUBT

In 1988, while John Wayne Gacy, 45, waited on Illinois death row (he was thought to have killed thirty-three young men and boys), he became engaged to Sue Terry, 43, of Centralia, Illinois, mother of eight. When asked why she would consider marrying a homicidal maniac, her answer was, "I don't believe hardly any of that." (Guess a half-dozen murders would be okay?)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#786)

THESE ARE NOT YOUR AVERAGE PICNIC ANTS

At many rural Mexican festivals ant candy is a favorite. These particular ants gorge their lives away mostly on honey from a species of oak leaf, until they swell enormously to about the size of a gooseberry. That's when the ants' legs and heads are pulled off, before being piled on a dish and eaten as candy. (It is said they taste much like sweet and juicy fruit.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#787)

THE LARGEST NATURAL EXPLOSION EVER RECORDED

The most powerful explosion in recorded history occurred on August 26-27, 1883, with the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa. A Dutch warship in the harbor of Batvia (now Djakarta) was washed ashore on huge waves, which eventually stranded it one-half mile (.8 km) inland, 30 feet (9.144 m) above sea level. The waves reached 120 feet (36.576 m) high and traveled 5,450 miles (8771 km) to South Africa in less than 12 hours. The sound was also heard in Perth, Australia, 1930 miles (3100 km) away.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, August 17, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#788)

MONEY COULD'VE BEEN SAVED BURYING THEM IN ONE COFFIN

Enrique Simental and Lupe Cardenas were drinking heavily, when they decided to play the game Russian Roulette, together, at the same time, in an apartment in Reno, Nevada. The gun fired, killing both men instantly.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, August 18, 2007 - Illness

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#789)

BUT MIRACLES COME IN MANY FORMS

In 1989, an image of Christ being crucified attracted a crowd of believers nightly in Santa Fe, California. That is until someone figured out the image was made by two street lights, shining on a bush and a real estate sign. (Praise Bob)

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#790)

SEEMS ALMOST LIKE DOUBLE JEOPARDY

Horace Franklin Dunkins, Jr. was strapped into an electric chair on death row in Alabama. The switch was thrown, his body jerked violently, then all his external body movements stopped; and it was over. Or was it? The two attending physicians found Dunkins was unconscious, but his heart was still beating strongly. That's when the guard directing the execution opened the door and said "The jacks are on wrong." Soon the wires were reattached (correctly this time) and 2100 volts completed the job.

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#791)

COMMERCIAL TOBACCO SUPPORT MADE TV WHAT IT IS TODAY

Back in the 1950s, television was in its infancy and needed advertising dollars badly to stay alive and grow nationally. At the same time, the tobacco companies loved to advertise. That's why the most successful police show to this date, Dragnet (starring actor-producer Jack Webb), very often showed Sergeant Joe Friday (Jack Webb) sharing smokes with fellow officers, witnesses and criminals.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, August 31, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#792)

INSIGHT FROM A PROPHET

A great quote from Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), India's great leader and teacher of passive resistance: "All fear is a sign of want of faith. Cultivate the quiet courage of dying without killing. For man lives freely only by his readiness to die..." (Or total acceptance of his/her finality.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, September 01, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#793)

AND THEY PROBABLY WEAR QUADRUPLE EXTRA-LARGE SIZED BIKINIS

The Rinconada Racetrack of Caracas, Venezuela, is probably the most luxurious track in the world. It even has a swimming pool for the horses.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, September 02, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#794)

WONDER IF THE JUDGE SWALLOWED THIS STORY?

A 32-year-old California woman sued Dr. Eugene Zavri and a local Sacramento hospital because, she said, during surgery a piece of equipment broke off and became lodged in her throat, embedding a deep fear of choking, making it impossible to enjoy oral sex.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, September 03, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#795)

WONDER WHAT THEY "WHACKED" HIM WITH?

While convicted murderer Raymond Landry was receiving a lethal injection, on December 13, 1988, in the death chamber of the prison in Huntsville, Texas, the syringe came out of his vein, spraying the lethal liquid drugs across the room. This caused the warden to quickly pull the curtain around the viewing area, where, for the next fourteen minutes all remained quiet.... until they heard a door open and close, then a groan. Next, the curtain reopened. Only then were doctors allowed to declare Landy dead.

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Tuesday, September 04, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#796)

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A RELIGION CONCEIVED BY/FOR MEN

According to the laws of Islam, a Muslim husband can (and may) divorce any (or all) of his (up to) four wives by simply saying, "I divorce you" three times, and it is done. A Muslim wife, on the other hand, no matter how much she is abused (verbally, physically or sexually), has few rights, and may end up never seeing her children again, should her husband decide so. (In that society, little is heard of the suicide rate among Muslin women for good reason. Even though it may be common, Muslim families generally are too ashamed to let it be made public, allowing this perpetuation of ignorance.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#797)

TOO BAD HE COULDN'T KICK HIMSELF IN THE GROIN ALSO

Maryland resident Brian T. Nolan was preparing to park his Mercedes when an Audi zipped ahead of him, taking the space. This upset Nolan, causing him to ask the driver if he wanted to fight. When the driver said "no," Nolan doubled-up his fists, then delivered 10 straight punches to his own mouth.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, September 06, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#798)

HE MUST'VE HAD TROUBLE GETTING TO THE POINT?

The longest sentence to ever appear in French literature was probably in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. It contains exactly 823 words, 93 commas, 51 semicolons, 4 dashes, and runs for almost 3 pages.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, September 07, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#799)

YOU COULD BE SHAKING HANDS WITH A PERSON'S LAST MEAL

Of the nearly four billion people on earth, about a third eat with a knife and fork, another third with chopsticks, and the remaining third use only their fingers and hands.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, September 08, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#800)

THE VENEER OF CIVILIZED SOCIETY IS EXTREMELY THIN

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the U.S. government began construction on the Golden Gate Bridge outside San Francisco. All jobs were filled immediately, leaving unemployed hungry men (many with hungry families) standing below daily as the colossal structure rose. They watched and waited, waited and watched for an employed worker to fall to his death, so they could have his job. (When someone on the high scaffolding would fall, those below would cheer and applaud the new job opening, available as soon as the employee hit the ground.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, September 09, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#801)

SHE MUST'VE BEEN A MIGHTY UGLY WOMAN?

James Price, 31, was walking through Buffalo, New York's La Salle Park late one evening, with a lady companion, when he decided to jump a fence and dive into a long ago drained swimming pool. When his female friend heard no more sounds, she used her cell phone to call 911. The first fireman to arrive, Raymond Whalen, 30, immediately raced through the dark, jumped the fence, and dove straight into the same empty pool, where he died from a broken neck.

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Monday, September 10, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#802)

THE AGING BRAIN IS A COMPUTER UNABLE TO "DEFRAG"

Quoting Senator Sparky M. Matsunaga (D-Hawaii) on March 12, 1980: "You know, there are three signs of aging. The first is you tend to forget things pretty easy, and ....for the life of me, I can't remember the other two."

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#803)

HER INTERIOR DECORATING STUNK

After concerned neighbors called police in Newport Beach, California, they found the body of 78-year-old Grace Lee, who had died of suffocation after slipping and falling through a deep pile of soiled garbage in her home. City workers had to haul away five tons of rotting garbage and trash before her body could be removed. Officer Tim Newman explained, "There was from three to six feet of garbage covering the entire house. She apparently walked on top of this mess from room to room."

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#804)

A COUNTRY WHERE THOUSANDS DIE MONTHLY FROM HUNGER

The largest piece of gold architecture in the world is the foundation that supports the gateway to the fortress of Purandhar near Poona, India. Made in 1290, it weighs 37,500 pounds and is worth about $40 million at today's prices.

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Thursday, September 13, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#805)

GANDHI, DINGOES AND POSSUMS

Mahatma Gandhi taught and practiced "passive resistance." The wild dingoes of Australia, when beaten (even severely), will remain totally lifeless. A possum under the same conditions will also lie limp, tongue hanging from its mouth, with eyes open and rolled back partially hidden in their brow.

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Friday, September 14, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#806)

WAS IT GOD'S BLESSING?

Some one-hundred-and-twenty-years ago, the hardy people living around Salt Lake City, Utah, only had their summer crops to feed them through frigid winters. In the summer of 1884 the fields were covered with millions of crickets, which attempted to eat every plant needed for those people's survival. Then, just as all looked lost, seagulls by the thousands arrived and ate, and ate, until virtually all the crickets were converted into bird manure. That's why Salt Lake City has a monument erected to seagulls. (A law also prohibits the killing of these birds.)

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Saturday, September 15, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#807)

THEY MIGHT NEED THAT EXTRA CASH TO HIRE A CRIMINAL LAWYER?

In 1984, Zahid Hussein, age 23, started his "rent a mob" business in India, providing mostly unemployed people to chant slogans, wave banners, applaud, cheer or boo in unison. For their services, these poor folks were paid about five-cents a day, unless asked to break the law. Lawbreakers received about fifteen cents each day.

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Sunday, September 16, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#808)

THAT COONSKIN CAP COVERED HIS CHAUVINISTIC BRAIN

American frontiersman, soldier and politician Davy Crockett (1786-1836), was a hero, a drunk, a deserter of wife and kids, and had the worst absentee record in congressional history. When he claimed he had killed 105 bears in nine months, his acquaintances knew he was lying because he couldn't count that high.

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Monday, September 17, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#809)

"I JUST WENT BANKRUPT, HEH-HEH-HEH"

Lithiated 7up
Label

Charles L. Grigg began offering a beverage called Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-lime soda in October of 1929, which became a favorite drink after the stock market crashed (two weeks later). Its advertising slogan promised: Takes the "ouch" out of grouch. That's because the lithium it contained is a powerful drug used today to treat bipolar disorder. Later, the name of this drink was changed to 7-UP. (Lithium was still listed on the label until the 1940s)

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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#810)

THEIR TEETH GET A GOOD "FLOSSING" DAILY

A bird called the Egyptian Plover (Pluvianus aegyptius) can be seen riding the backs of crocodiles, screaming cries when danger comes near. In their spare time, the Plover digs parasites from the reptile's back. In return, when the crock finishes a meal, he opens his jaws wide and invites his "best friend" inside his mouth to enjoy the leftovers that remain stuck between his teeth.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#811)

EGAD! WHAT AN EGO

President of the Philippines (1966-1986), Ferdinand Marcos, for many years moved around provincial and municipal boundaries in his country, resetting those boundaries so the outline on a map of the northern Philippines would display his image.

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Thursday, September 20, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#812)

"...WITH BACON, HASH BROWNS, TOAST AND COFFEE, PLEASE"

An African ostrich egg weighs about 1.3 kg (2.9 lbs) and is the largest of all eggs, though they are the smallest eggs relative to the size of the bird. It takes twenty to twenty-four chicken eggs to equal the volume of liquid inside the shell. A man weighing 91 kilograms (200 lbs) can stand on the shell without it breaking.

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Friday, September 21, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#813)

THIS GIVES "TOSSING A SALAD" A WHOLE NEW MEANING

During a "vegetable drive-by," a gang in London threw a cabbage at a man and injured his stomach. A few months later, Leslie Merry, 56, was walking down a street, near his home in London's East End, when he was hit by a hard thrown turnip. Leslie's rib was broken and spleen ruptured. He died nine days after the attack, from respiratory problems.

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Saturday, September 22, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#814)

HE WAS THINKING ABOUT HORSE-ING AROUND ANOTHER WAY

Lady Godiva
by John Collier

The legend of Lady Godiva riding through the streets of Coventry on her white stallion, totally nude, supposedly occurred in the 1050s. All because her husband, Lord Leofric (968-1057), refused to lower taxes unless a lady citizen would appear on the streets of that city totally nude. Lady Godiva's only request was all citizens go inside and close their shutters to protect her modesty. And all complied, except Tom-the-Tailor (Peeping Tom), who had both his eyes gouged out when caught by fellow citizens.

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Sunday, September 23, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#815)

TOTAL LOVE MAY TRANSCEND EVEN SPECIES

The British medical weekly, The Lancet, reported in a 1989 article that a two-year-old dog had discovered a malignant tumor on the thigh of her owner, Bonita Whitfield, 44. Over a period of months, her faithful pet sniffed the tumor very often, even attempted to bite it off her leg at least once. Finally convinced, she saw her doctor, who saved her life. (Documented cases have shown pets, especially dogs, have detected illness in their master when no obvious symptoms were present.)

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Monday, September 24, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#816)

NOW HE'S QUALIFIED TO SLAUGHTER CHICKENS AT KFC

While Uniondale, New York, sanitation workers tried to remove twenty tons of trash and rotting garbage from the yard of Roderick Baker, 70, he held a cage containing 140 chickens hostage at knife point, threatening to kill one a minute until the sanitation crew left his property. He killed 3 chickens before authorities took his knife away.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#817)

THEY MEET THEIR FRIENDS IN THE LOCAL TOILET

A newly decorated three-story (yep, three-story) public toilet on Nanjing Street in Shanghai was voted China's "best public toilet." It has a mosaic-tiled-entry, automatic hair dryers, air-conditioning, a conference room with leather couches, and a large screen video-karaoke player.

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#818)

AND, WOMEN ASKING, "DID THE EARTH MOVE FOR YOU, TOO?!"

After the December 1988 earthquake in Los Angeles, the only injury reported was a man admitted to a Burbank hospital, who'd mistaken the trembler for a burglar and shot himself in the foot.

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Thursday, September 27, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#819)

GUILTY OR NOT, THIS FELLOW NEEDED ANOTHER HOBBY

The Dallas Morning News reported, November 4, 2004, that Hall of Fame basketball player Calvin Murphy was standing trial because he had been arrested and charged with having sex with five of his ten daughters, between 1988 and 1991. (Mr. Murphy had fourteen children by nine different women.) He was found not guilty by the jury in December.

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Friday, September 28, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#820)

TRUTHS ABOUT THE OLD WEST

Three pieces of trivia: (1) Billy the Kid (Henry McCarty, a.k.a. Henry Antrim and William H. Bonney) was born in Brooklyn, New York. (2) Most cowboys disliked carrying guns because they got in the way. (3) Old time cowboys mostly died from riding accidents or pneumonia.

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Saturday, September 29, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#821)

PRIMROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME DOES NOT SOUND SWEET

Clive McLoud was questioned by London police concerning a cockatoo stolen from a nearby pet store, worth 750 pounds (about $1,512 USD). McLoud swore he called his bird "Billy." But when officers took the bird to the pet store, first thing it said was "Hello," then told everyone his name was Primrose.

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Sunday, September 30, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#822)

FLIGHT SCHOOL WOULD'VE BEEN EASIER

After eleven years of seeking "the perfect state of mind" in Transcendental Meditation classes, Robert Kropinski of Philadelphia told a court he wanted a refund, plus punitive damages. He had been promised he could learn to fly with self-levitation, and all Kropinski learned during that time was how to "hop with his legs folded in the lotus position."

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Monday, October 01, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#823)

STANDING UP FOR SNAKES

The SPCA asked the Malaysian media to please carry some positive news for a change, about pythons. The media reported a twenty-three-foot long python had killed, and tried to swallow whole, a twenty-nine-year-old rubber plantation worker in Johore State. This, the society said, was causing Malaysians to beat to death any snake they could find.

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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#824)

THEY COULD'VE BURIED HIM IN FOUR GRAVES

Robert Earl Hughes (1926-1958) of Fishhook, Illinois, weighed 1,069 pounds, making him the heaviest person in recorded history. His chest measured 124 inches around. After dying, Hughes was hoisted into a coffin the size of a piano case and hauled to the cemetery in a moving van.

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Wednesday, October 03, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#825)

NOW YOU KNOW

Ever wonder why we sometimes call people "jerks?" In Victorian times it was believed "self abuse" could and would drive a person crazy. Therefore, basically all forms of mental disease had to be cause by masturbation, resulting in the derogatory term "jerk off," later shortened to simply jerk. (The British equivalent to this word is "wanker.")

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Thursday, October 04, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#826)

THEY ALSO USED FILM TAKING HIS MUG SHOT

After shoplifting film from a Baltimore drugstore, a thirty-six-year-old man ran straight into the arms of several dozen people wearing police uniforms, and immediately surrendered. Turned out, the several dozen "police" were actors filming NBC-TV's show Homicide.

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Friday, October 05, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#827)

LET'S JUMP ON THESE FACTS

A leaping flea (Ctenocephalides felis) can jump from the ground to your skin in less than two-thousands of a second, causing the gravitational force of one-hundred-fifty times its body weight. [That would be much like driving a car into a brick wall at 200 m.p.h. (322 k.p.h.)].

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Saturday, October 06, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#828)

PARANOIA AND PEACE DO NOT MIX WELL

In 1986, on the floor of the World Peace Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, protesters disrupted the meeting with anti-Soviet speeches and distribution of propaganda leaflets. The crowd reacted by chanting "Go Home, CIA," with raised fists. (And things went down hill from there.)

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Sunday, October 07, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#829)

WONDER WHO FINALLY GOT THAT PARKING SPACE?

A fight over a parking place in the Nigerian city of Kano caused a riot that killed at least five people. It all started when a taxi driver from one tribe argued over a parking space with a merchant from another tribe. Police spokesman Abdullah Hasidim said word spread rapidly, causing other fights, which escalated into a riot. Fighting with sticks, machetes and stone, they rampaged through neighborhoods burning shops, cars and people's homes.

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Monday, October 08, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#830)

YOU THOUGHT THE BUGS ON YOUR WINDSHIELD WERE BAD

Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, experimented to find ways to improve the windshields on large military and commercial planes. Since large birds, such as ducks and geese, can destroy a plane's windshield and other parts of the fuselage at high impact speeds, they designed a 20 ft (6.1 m) cannon to fire 4 lb (1.8 kg) chickens at 700 mph (1127 kph) to test different types of glass.

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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#831)

HE DID WHAT MOST FOLKS WISH THEY COULD

Domenico Germano, 32, became upset with an automatic teller machine in Portland, Maine, when it refused to give him his money, so he took his trusty firearm and applied four noisy bullets to it. This caused the judge to decide Mr. Germano should pay repairs in the amount of $5,433.09, and serve four years probation.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#832)

HE HAD MUCH TO TEACH

India's great leader Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948): "Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart and it must be an inseparable part of our very being."

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#833)

HER HUSBAND MIGHT AS WELL TAKE A NUMBER AND WAIT HIS TURN

According to ABC Radio's Paul Harvey News, during a formal wedding reception held around a swimming pool in Schweinfurt, Bavaria (Germany), screams coming from a dressing booth caused several guests to rush and jerk open the door. Inside they found the bride ripping the clothing off a bartender. (She explained, "I just had to do it with a stranger one more time.)

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Friday, October 12, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#834)

ANTLERS PROBABLY GET HEAVY ON A HUNG-OVER HEAD

Fall is when Sweden's huge apple crops ripen, with many falling to the ground. In the rotting process, alcohol is created in the juice, allowing some 300,000 moose to get falling-down drunk.

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Saturday, October 13, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#835)

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IS IMPORTED

In the United States, our most outstanding symbol of freedom is the Statue of Liberty. Truth is, it was created by a Frenchman and paid for by the citizens of France. (American donations did pay for the concrete pedestal which supports it.) Another symbol is America's Liberty Bell. It was held in such low regard, it was almost melted down as scrap. Only by accident was it saved.

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Sunday, October 14, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#836)

THIS COMMISSIONER NEEDED TO BE PUT OUT OF COMMISSION

In 1996, William E. Luster, 36, Boston's new transportation commissioner, was fired after only eight days on the job. That was after a local newspaper printed his driving record. New man in town, Luster had already been ticketed twice. One while in town for that job interview, for blocking a handicap ramp. This man in charge of Boston's traffic safety and parking, already had at least five speeding tickets and three accidents on his record, as well as two arrests for driving with a suspended license. And, a year before, he'd taken a mandatory driver reeducation course.

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Monday, October 15, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#837)

BET HE WAS SURPRISED TO WAKE UP DEAD

A burglar must have been very pleased when he broke into a large upscale luxury home in Los Angeles to find no one home, not even a family pet. He was so pleased, and relaxed, he went to sleep on a sofa, and never awoke again because........because the house was totally vacant in order for poison to be released through its vents to destroy all bugs and mice. (And burglars.)

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#838)

SHE GOT ALL CHOKED UP OVER THE WHOLE THING

Mario Garcia, 31, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was charged with assault after performing an exorcism on his mother-in-law. While his wife, father-in-law, brother-in-law and three children under 10 gathered around, Mr. Garcia shoved two eight-inch steel crucifixes down the 47-year-old woman's throat, rupturing her esophagus.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#839)

HIS WAY TO SALVATION UPSET THE DEVIL IN SOME FOLKS

Street preacher David Strode's three children (Duffy 11, Pepper 7 and Matthew 6) were suspended from a Marion, North Carolina, elementary school repeatedly in 1988 for disrupting classes by loudly preaching "hellfire and damnation." School officials especially objected to the children's use of words such as "whoremonger" and "fornicator." The father said his family did not attend any church services because, "No church will have us."

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#840)

POLICE DIDN'T HAVE THE "RIGHT FEEL" FOR THIS SEARCH

The Virginian-Pilot reported September 18, 1996, two Muslim women were taken into custody for wearing face veils, a required part of their religious dress (called hijab). Handcuffed and "patted down," they were transported to police headquarters, then released. The women filed complaints, claiming they were both fondled during their pat-down searches.

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Friday, October 19, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#841)

FOR GOOD MENTAL HEALTH, GET SILLY OCCASIONALLY

Some twenty-five years ago, on the television show Saturday Night Live, wonderfully funny and talented Gilda Radner said it, "What's all this fuss I hear about making Puerto Rico a steak? Let me warn all of you: if you make Puerto Rico a steak, the next thing they'll want is a baked potato - with sour cream and chives and little bacon bits. And then they'll probably want a salad bar! Why, they'll be lined up for miles!"

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Saturday, October 20, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#842)

LONG AS HE DOESN'T HITCH-HIKE OR TRY SUCKING HIS THUMB...

Rafael Santiago, 34, was being treated in the emergency room of a Miami hospital for a missing thumb, when he was arrested by the police. Seems Mr. Santiago was stealing a shotgun earlier in the evening, and during the burglary it went off, blowing away his thumb.

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Sunday, October 21, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#843)

PERHAPS HE SHOULD'VE STOLEN A SEEING-EYE DOG FIRST?

Gary Gunderson, 43, was convicted of grand theft after officials testified he had stolen truckloads of government property, ranging from power generators to an entire load of ready-to-eat meals. At his sentencing, Mr. Gunderson explained to Judge William Polly he didn't realize how much he had stolen because his eyesight was so poor.

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Monday, October 22, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#844)

THESE "ORIGINAL THINKERS" WERE NOT

Grantham, New Hampshire, had two streets named Stoney Brook (Stoney Brook Drive and Stoney Brook Lane), so officials changed the name of one street to Old Springs Drive, and the other to Old Springs Lane.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#845)

THE "MSRC" WAS MORE LIKE A "MESS"

The Marine Spill Response Corporation agreed to pay the state Department of Fish and Game, and the city of Venture, California, a total of $73,000, after its new company ship, designed to clean up oil spills, sprung a leak in a fuel tank in Port Hueneme Harbor, California, and dumped 380 gallons of diesel fuel along this Pacific shore line.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#846)

IT NEEDED TO MISFIRE IN HIS PANTS, NEAR HIS BRAIN

James Aldridge, 39, was arrested in Raytown, Missouri, after his 8-year-old son's baseball coach refused his suggestion of moving his son to another position on the team, twice. Mr. Aldridge first threatened the coach with a baseball bat. Then, after rushing out to his car, returned with a pistol in his waistband.

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#847)

ONE CAN ONLY WONDER FROM WHERE THIS KNOWLEDGE CAME?

Crude glass making was already a well-established industry in Egypt in the 16th century B.C. The Romans perfected this art 1500 years later. And, in 1608, the first glass manufacturing plant in the Colonies began operation.

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Friday, October 26, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#848)

A BARNEY FIFE BOO-BOO

After Butler County, Missouri, sheriff's deputy Tony Dow, 25, reported a motorist had shot him in the arm, a four-day hunt for the "scruffy" gunman turned up nothing. That's when Deputy Dow (Sounds like cartoon figure Deputy Dog) admitted the truth to Sheriff Fred Armes. He had stopped his patrol car to urinate on a lonely road, and decided to play toss-and-catch with his service revolver. That's how he shot himself.

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Saturday, October 27, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#849)

BASICALLY, MASS COMMUNICATIONS STARTED WITH THIS MAN

Father of Radio
Broadcasting

The first advertised radio broadcast was emitted on Christmas Eve in 1906, provided and voiced by Professor Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (1866 - 1932). But the first radio station with a regular schedule was KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, starting in 1920. In the next 50 years that single station would multiply to almost 4,400 AM and around 2,400 FM, broadcasting simultaneously in the USA. (Who are they now? CBS.)

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Sunday, October 28, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#850)

THESE GUYS ARE REAL STINKERS

Striped Skunk

Skunks (from the family, Mephitidae) smell badly because of a mixture of sulfur-containing chemicals (methyl and butyl thiols) produced by two glands, one on either side of their anus. This compound is detectable at concentrations of about 2 parts per million. A more potent mixture is Ethanethiol. It occurs naturally as a minor component of petroleum. Even one part in 2.8 billion parts of air can be detected by the human nose. (It may be added to liquefied petroleum gas to warn of a gas leak.)

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Monday, October 29, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#851)

STUPID HISTORY

George Custer and his wife

George Armstrong Custer (1839 - 1876) was making boo-boos long before Little Bighorn (1876). He finished last in his class at West Point. He left his command (1867) to visit his wife and got caught. (For this he was court-martialed, and kicked out of the service, only to return when they needed him to fight Indians.) Concerning Custer's Last Stand, it was senseless. He knew General Alfred Terry and his whole division would arrive in two-days. But Custer's ego would not wait, and that decision caused the brutal deaths of Custer and his 267 men.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#852)

THIS MOVIE REALLY WAS A STINKER

A movie shown in New York City on December 8, 1958, Behind the Great Wall, was not only a travelogue of China, but also had an "odor track" where different smells were released in the ventilation system during scenes from different parts of that country. The first several times the odors were released, the audience was pleased. But as each new fragrance combined with the old it began smelling so badly the audience ran from the theater, coughing and heaving.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#853)

BACK WHEN PASSENGERS FILLED BARF-BAGS WITH QUALITY FOOD

Way back "in the good old days" not everyone disliked airline food. Some 40 years ago, American Airlines said their reservation clerks were flooded with calls from passengers wishing to buy copies of their cookbook, telling how to re-create the "subtle flavors and tantalizing aromas" of airline cuisine in their own kitchens. (In 1993, they published and 18-page cookbook, titled: A Taste of Something Special)

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Thursday, November 01, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#854)

THEY CAN ONLY BE READ UNDER A MICROSCOPE

The era of very tiny books began during the last year of the 19th century when Charles Hardy Meigs of Cleveland, OH, produced a 0.375 inch (1 cm) by 0.3125 inch (0.8 cm) version of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur. It held the title of the world's smallest book until 1932, when a 0.1875 inch (0.5 cm) by 0.21875 inch (0.6 cm) version of The Rose Garden of Omar Khayyam was published in Worcester, MA by the Commonwealth Press.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, November 02, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#855)

EVENTUALLY, SHE CAN SUE OVER AGE DISCRIMINATION

In 1983, in Norfolk, Virginia, Theresa Mulqueen Skeeter, a light-skinned African-American female from mixed parentage, sued her employer (a municipal agency) claiming racial discrimination. In 1987, Ms. Skeeter sued that agency again. This time claiming discrimination because she was white.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, November 03, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#856)

WHAT IF HE'D BEEN A DOOR-TO-DOOR SALESMAN?

Looking back over his life, Lowell Davis, 83, of Savannah, Missouri, said he felt confident he had written down the names of everyone he could remember meeting since age 3. His various lists from over the years showed a total of 3,487 names, along with brief notations such as: "Leonard McKnight - fond of chicken gravy."

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, November 04, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#857)

YOU'D NEED A PRETTY BIG TABLE TO SUPPORT THIS MODEL

A miniature model can be made of almost anything except the universe. Why not the universe? Because, if the replica representing the earth were only one inch (2.54 cm) in diameter, Alpha Centauri, our closest star, would still be around 51,400 miles (82,720 km) away.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, November 05, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#858)

BUT DON'T WORRY, THEY'LL STILL HAVE CIRCUMCISIONS

Jewish law (Halakha) forbids sex twelve hours before a woman begins menstruation, and for seven days after it ends. When a hand-held "purity computer" was introduced to help couples follow these rules, several ultra-Orthodox Rabbis in Israel banned their use. Rabbi Yosef Halevi Eliasshiv, an authority on Jewish law, warned the computer could be the start of technology taking over Rabbis' traditional authority.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#859)

HE LET A BAD HAIR DAY RUIN AT LEAST TWO LIVES, ONE HIS OWN

A customer with a half-moon scar on the back of his head brought Denver barber Bobbie D. Willis, 46, a photo showing "exactly" how he wanted his hair to look. When Willis completed the trim, the man became very angry and stormed out of his shop, to return later and shoot Willis to death.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#860)

IN A LESS ENLIGHTENED TIME

Red Rain water sample
(left) and after the particles
settled (right). Dried
sediment (center).

Before meteorology became a science, "blood rains" in Europe would cause fear and panic. Even though reddish rain still occasionally falls in Italy and parts of France, it is now known some storms lift reddish desert dust from the Sahara in Northern Africa, where it floats across the Mediterranean into cloud banks above Europe.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, November 08, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#861)

AND, ON WARM DAYS, THEY COULD WEAR THEIR TANK TOPS

When the House Armed Services Committee asked U.S. military units how they dealt with financial shortages near the end of a fiscal year, Fort Hood, Texas, explained its method of saving fuel was to have the armored tank platoons drive onto the practice field, dismount from the tanks, then sit on the ground. Next, pretending to still be inside their tanks, the soldiers would do training exercises walking around the open field, still acting as if they were inside their tanks. (FYI: It costs $2,000 an hour to operate a single M-12A tank in the fields.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, November 09, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#862)

HOW DOES ONE "DRESS FOR DINNER" AT A NUDIST CAMP?

After a massive earthquake caused heavy destruction in Soviet Armenia in December 1988, food, emergency supplies and clothing came from around the world. One organization donating clothing was the Potomac Rambling Bares, a Washington D.C. area nudist camp.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, November 10, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#863)

GAY LOVERS' TRIANGLE? NOPE. DAN WAS STRAIGHT, WE GUESS?

Dan White (1977) Hostess Twinkies

In 1978, San Francisco's only anti-gay city board member, Dan White, resigned his seat, then changed his mind and went to City Hall to plea for re-appointment. After he was turned down, White shot and killed Mayor George Moscone, then reloaded and killed supervisor Harvey Milk. As crazy as laws can get, Mr. White's attorney, Doug Schmidt, claimed his client had consumed so many Hostess Twinkies, the high level of concentrated sugars in his body caused him to snap. He was found guilty, but of voluntary manslaughter, not first degree murder. (Two years after his release from prison, White committed suicide.)

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, November 11, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#864)

THEY SHOULD GIVE A "FREE" POUND OF SLUDGE WITH EACH PIZZA

The townspeople of Wellston, Ohio, welcomed Jeno's, Inc., when it built a frozen pizza plant there, especially when it hired nearly 1,000 local folks. But, in less than one year, 400,000 pounds of pizza sludge (flower, tomato paste, cheese and pepperoni) had clogged the city's sewer system. And, the EPA forbid its burial in landfills, because the surface above would be too unstable for future use.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, November 12, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#865)

AND YOU THOUGHT YOUR NEIGHBORS WERE BAD

Baboon Lemurs

The Copenhagen Zoo placed a human couple on display in a Plexiglass-walled apartment. Their neighbors on the left were baboons, with two lemurs on their right. The zoo said it hoped to help show the close link between man and animal. The human couple, one an acrobat (Henrik Lehmann), the other a writer (Malene Butoft), often complained the lemurs were spraying them with urine.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007- Vacation

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007- Vacation

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Thursday, November 15, 2007- Vacation

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Friday, November 16, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#866)

ASK YOURSELF, WHAT WOULD YOU DO UNDER THESE CONDITIONS?

ABC's Paul Harvey News reports that Mr. Michael Cainrath of Stafford, Virginia, found an "extra" $2,700 in his bank account. Even though poor, Mr. Cainrath tried doing the right thing and reported the error. But the bank disagreed and did nothing, ....until they discovered the error themselves. The next month, when he received his bank statement, Mr. Cainrath had $115 million of "new" money in his account! This time, he had "his" $115 million transferred to a savings account, in order to draw interest on the money..... which never was his.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#867)

THEY MEANT WHAT THEY SAID, "Until death do us part"

Jake and Gracie
Christmas Day 1934

On Christmas Day 1934, J.C. "Jake" Jackson, 28, and his new bride, Gracie, 18, set up housekeeping near Terrell, Texas. On Thursday, November 25, 2004, almost 70 years later, Jake died at age 97. A few hours later, Gracie, 88, followed him.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, November 18, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#868)

PERHAPS 'HIS HONOR' ENJOYED 'NOSE CANDY' HIMSELF

Judge Harold
Baer, Jr.

Around 5 A.M. on April 21, 1995, New York City Police Officer Richard Carroll approached a car into which four men had just loaded two large duffle bags. As the officer came towards them, these men ran away leaving the driver to fend for herself. A search of the car turned up 80 pounds (36.29 kilograms) of cocaine and heroin, and got a confession from the driver. In court, Judge Harold Baer, Jr. threw out the confession, saying the search was beyond probable cause, and that the people in that neighborhood were afraid of police, and he understood why.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, November 19, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#869)

THANKS TO DNA TECHNOLOGY

Thomas Jefferson

That aristocrat of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), third president of the United States(1801 - 1809), fathered at least one child (Eston Hemings Jefferson) with his slave Sally Hemings (1773-1835). Their sexual relationship may have begun as early as 1786, when she was only 13-years-old. And, yet to be proven, if Hemings' other 5 children (two died in infancy) were his, as well? Regardless, in his will (he was deeply in debt by then) Jefferson instructed that all of Sally's children should be "freed." He gave freedom to no other nuclear slave family.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#870)

SHIRLEY TEMPLE GONE BAD

Annette Montoya, 11, of Belen, New Mexico, was arrested along with her parents, after she and her father tried to open an account in her name with a check in the amount of $900,000. She told sheriff's deputies she earned the money doing some 'yard work.' She then crossed-her-heart, and said, 'Hope to die if I'm lying.'

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#871)

YEARLY, ABOUT 98,000 HOSPITAL PATIENTS DIE FROM ERRORS

A. Barton Hepburn Hospital

A. Barton Hepburn Hospital was fined $4,000 by the New York State Health Department in 1984 for letting their chief medical officer, Dr. John R. Bongiovanni, continue to perform surgery after an auto accident (4 years prior) left him legally blind.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, November 22, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#872)

WHAT COULD FACIAL HAIR POSSIBLY HAVE TO DO WITH ETERNITY?

Will his beard help him?

When the Muslim Taliban took control of Afghanistan in September of 1996, they passed an immediate law, all male citizens were to grow beards within 45-days. The new Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (al-Amr bi al-Ma'ruf wa al-Nahi `an al-Munkir ), in charge of ordaining good and prohibiting bad deeds, gave an announcement over Radio Kabul that beards must be full beards. Even trimmed beards would be reason for punishment.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Friday, November 23, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#873)

ROE VS. WADE DOGGIE STYLE

I did not have sex
with that b*tch!

E.M. Chadwich of Montrose, Iowa, was sued by his neighbor, Betty Boulton, who complained the defendant's dog had ripped through a screen door and gotten her Scottish terrier pregnant. In rebuttal, Chadwich stated, "She came up here asking me to pay for an abortion. I'm opposed to abortion."

Andrew J. Hewett

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Saturday, November 24, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#874)

THEY GAVE THE '411' TO BOTH 703 AND 540

It cost the phone company, Bell Atlantic, about $100,000 to mail postcards to nearly 388,000 telephone customers living in Western Virginia, informing them their area code would be changed from 703 to 540. Unfortunately, a computer mailing error sent all these cards to addresses in northern Virginia, where the area code was not to change....costing Bell twice to three times the original cost, to notify both groups.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#875)

WHAT A SWEET, SWEET MAN... NOT

Fred Apfel, 71, of Colonie, New York, was found innocent of killing his 71-year-old wife with an ax, by reason of insanity, after he told the court why he killed her. He was afraid inflation would consume her $40,000 savings account, and wished to save her the misery of out-living her money.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Monday, November 26, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#876)

PERHAPS THEY CONJURED-UP A GOOD MOVIE FOR THEIR FLIGHT?

While Siddiq Adam el Haji, 52, and Ahmed Adam Ali, 48, were being escorted by high security police through Cairo International Airport, it was feared these men might reek havoc in public. After all, it was felt, how else could two such common citizens have enough brains to cheat a Qatari businessman out of $30,000,000 U.S. (20,236,000 EUROS)? In fact, so afraid were the authorities that these two prisoners might put a 'hex' on the plane, they were blindfolded before boarding the flight.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#877)

THIS FISH TRAVELED MILES TO MEET TARTER SAUCE

Salmon Stavanger

Scientists in Norway were tracking the migratory routes of wild salmon with radio implants when one of their signals stopped, only to begin again a few days later. But, this time, several miles away, in the city of Stavanger. This distance traveled by the fish wasn't a mystery for long. Not after it turned up frozen inside a fisherman's freezer.

Andrew J. Hewett

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#878)

HE COULD STILL UPHOLD HIS VERSION OF THE LAW

Medway, Maine's Police Chief Phil Cram, 42, took two friends 'fishing.' But, as the chief raised his right arm to throw an illegal bomb (a.k.a. A Redneck Fishfinder) into the water and 'stun' fish to the lake's surface, the device exploded prematurely, blowing off much of the law-breaker's hand. No matter. If by accident, he were re-elected, this lawman would have enough of a right hand to place on the Bible for 'swearing in.'

Andrew J. Hewett

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

FACT OF THE DAY (#879)

YOU MIGHT WANT TO GIVE YOUR MIDDLE FINGER TO THIS IDEA?