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Did You Know

  • Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.

  • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.

  • Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

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  • Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

  • A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.

  • An earthquake on December 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

Quips

Don't let worry kill you. Let the Church help.

Filed Under: Church Notices


At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is Hell?".
Come early and listen to the choir practice.

Filed Under: Church Notices


Sign seen in a bar: "Those drinking to forget, please pay in advance."

Filed Under: Signs


Fun Book Titles

  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts

  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry

  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff

  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh

  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt

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Good Question

  • Do steam rollers really roll steam?

  • Why does an inspiring sight like a sunrise always have to take place at such an inconvenient time?

  • How long will a floating point operation float?

Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

  • The first Guernsey Cattle Club organizes in New York City.

    Wednesday February 7, 1877

  • Filed Under: → Business & Industry


  • "Stars & Stripes Weekly", the United States Armed Forces newspaper is first published.

    Friday February 8, 1918

  • Filed Under: → War


  • Richard Johnson is the 1st Vice President chosen by the United States Senate. It happened during the Van Buren administration.

    Wednesday February 8, 1837

  • Filed Under: → Politics


Events

  • The man known as the 'Crocodile Hunter' died after his chest was punctured by a stingray barb while diving off Australia's northeast coast. The 44 year-old colourful personality was filming a documentary about the Great Barrier Reef when tragedy struck.

    According to friend and colleague, John Stainton, Steve Irwin swam too close to the ray while he was diving off his boat "Croc One" near Batt Reef, northeast of Port Douglas.

    Monday September 4, 2006

  • Filed Under: → Deaths


  • A father and son in Alabama were killed when they crashed into each other in a head-on collision. Jeffrey Morris Brasher and his son Austin Blaine Brasher of Bankston, Alabama, died early Saturday morning.

    Jeffrey Brasher was driving a 2006 Ford pickup and his son was driving a 2004 Chevrolet truck when they collided on a highway head-on, said Alabama State Trooper Jonathon Appling.

    Saturday February 18, 2017

  • Filed Under: → Deaths


  • Relatives of a 91-year-old Ohio woman who died this week are giving her the last word with a sassy, occasionally profane obituary that starts with the basics, "I was born. I lived. I died.", and instructs people to "Wait the appropriate amount of time" before trying to claim her stuff.

    They wrote it in Jean Oddi's perspective, recapping the people important to her, adventures she had and her favorite activities, including playing cards and teaching her granddaughter "dirty songs".

    Thursday February 23, 2017

  • Filed Under: → Deaths


  • If you refuse to be made straight when you are wet, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
    - African Proverb

  • Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
    - African Proverb

  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb

World Firsts

  • 1st meeting of the Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America.

    Wednesday February 6, 1861

  • Filed Under: → Politics


  • The 1st appearance of cholera happens in Edinburgh, Scotland.

    Monday February 6, 1832

  • Filed Under: → Medicine


  • Astronomical Society of Pacific holds its 1st meeting in San Francisco.

    Thursday February 7, 1889

  • Filed Under: → Science


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Wise Words

  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb

  • When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
    - African Proverb

  • When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
    - African Proverb

Filed Under: Wise Words

Good Question

  • If there are 52 weeks in a year, how many weeks are there in a light year?

  • Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?

  • How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?

Filed Under: → Good Question