ISSUE: 213
The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance.
- Socrates
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Fun Facts


  • Cranberry Jell-O is the only flavor that contains real fruit flavoring.
  • Birmingham Alabama has more miles of canals than Venice Italy.
  • Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.
  • In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
  • Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line "You can only live so long.
  • If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 51% would be female, 49% male; 50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people, one person would be nearly dead, one nearly born.
  • In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.
  • In 1920, Babe Ruth out-homered every American League team.
  • Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
  • Toxic houseplants poison more children than household chemicals.
  • The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
  • In many countries, a bunny rabbit represents Easter. In Switzerland, children get eggs from the Easter cuckoo.


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    Pagan Ukraine
    Just kidding
    Famous Quotes On Anger
    Blonds Have More Fun
    This Month in Ukrainian History

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    Bumper Stickers
    Things Found Only in America
    Devil in the Church
    Generosity Begins at Home
    Murphy's Other Laws
    Some Interesting Facts



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