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FACTS OF THE MONTH:
Of George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television", two of them are now freely used in network primetime.
The official condom supplier for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney has been requested by organizers to provide each participating athlete with 51 condoms--three for each of the Olympics' 17 days.
Due to the threat of a Japanese invasion of the American mainland less than a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the 1942 Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham, NC.
Americans collectively fly over a billion miles a day.
A cockroach can survive for nine days after cutting off its head.
More moisture falls in the Sahara Desert per year than in Antarctica.
Pope Stephen II (A.D. 752) had the shortest reign of any pope. After two days it got to be too much and he quit.
The onion is a variety of lily.
The blood in Alfred Hitchcock's B/W thriller "Psycho" was actually chocolate syrup.
The first coin with the words "United States of America" on it was minted in 1727. Also inscribed on the coin was the motto, "Mind Your Own Business."
Of the Americans who died in 1998, 24% of them were cremated.
The just-announced-it's-being-cancelled soap opera "Another World" was the first daytime soap to go to an hour in length. For an eighteen-month period nearly twenty years ago, it was also the first (and, to date, only) 90-minute serial.
Married men in France use more cosmetics than their wives.
After the United States, the country that produces the most food is Brazil.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
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CAT WEEK II:
Adult cats shed their coats three times a year (once a season except winter). Neutering a cat extends its life span by two to three years. In most cases, white cats with blue eyes are deaf. If it has only one blue eye the ear closest to it will be deaf. Most white cats with orange eyes do not have a hearing problem. Around 15% of cats born in Boston, MA, are polydactyl (they have extra toes). The twenty most popular cat names in America are:
Tylenol & chocolate are both poisonous to cats. The average lifespan of a housecat is 15-16 years, although a few have been known to live twice as long. |
Mice are more acceptable in today's society that rats. Things might've been different, however, had the first cartoon talkie instead starred "Rickey Rat".
Football's first Heisman Trophy winner, Jay Berwanger, was also the first player chosen in the first NFL draft. He declined to turn pro.
Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet didn't use enough postage for a letter bomb he had mailed, so it was returned to him. The last thing he ever did, forgetting the contents inside, was open it up.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
170,000 Americans injure themselves in the shower each year.
The first chessboard consisting of alternating light and dark squares first appeared in Europe in 1090.
The net weight of the nine girls of "The Facts of Life" in its first season matched the net weight of the four remaining girls in its last season.
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