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Did You Know

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

  • A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

  • 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.

  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices


The Minister unveiled the Church's new donations campaign on Sunday: "I upped my Pledge - Up Yours".

Filed Under: Church Notices


Thursday night is Potluck Supper. Prayer and medication to follow.

Filed Under: Church Notices


Fun Book Titles

  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff

  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts

  • The Barber of Seville
    - by Aaron Floor

  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann

  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt

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Good Question

  • Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

  • 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?

  • Does killing time damage eternity?

Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

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

    Wednesday February 7, 1877

  • Filed Under: → Business & Industry


  • The Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for their 1st United States tour.

    Friday February 7, 1964

  • Filed Under: → Entertainment


  • France recognizes the United States of America and signs a treaty of aid in Paris; it's the 1st U.S. treaty.

    Friday February 6, 1778

  • Filed Under: → War


Events

  • 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


  • 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


  • Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
    - African Proverb

  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb

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

World Firsts

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

    Friday February 8, 1918

  • Filed Under: → War


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

    Thursday February 7, 1889

  • Filed Under: → Science


  • The United States swears in its 1st female Secretary of Transportation, namely Elizabeth Dole.

    Monday February 7, 1983

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


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Wise Words

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

  • When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
    - African Proverb

  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb

Filed Under: Wise Words

Good Question

  • You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes. Why can't they make the whole plane out of the same material?

  • If buttered toast always lands buttered side down and a cat always lands on its feet, what would happen if you tied a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped them both?

  • Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment but when you transport something by ship it's called cargo?

Filed Under: → Good Question