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                    US BOX OFFICE CHAMP
                    John Wayne was on the Top Ten Box Office List 25
                    times during his career, more often than any other
                    film star in history. Between the years 1949 and
                    1974, there was only one year that Wayne did not
                    appear on the list: 1956. Four times Wayne landed
                    in the Number 1 Box Office spot - in 1950, 1951, 1954,
                    and 1971.


                    WHO INVENTED THE PINK FLAMINGO LAWN ORNAMENT?

                    The father of the pink flamingo (the plastic lawn ornament)
                    was Don Featherstone of Massachusetts. Featherstone
                    graduated from art school and went to work as a designer for
                    Union Products, a Leominster, Massachusetts company that
                    manufactured flat plastic lawn ornaments. He designed the
                    pink flamingo in 1957 as a follow-up project to his plastic
                    duck. Today, Featherstone is president and part owner of the
                    company that sells an average of 250,000 to 500,000 plastic
                    pink flamingos a year.



                    WHAT WAS THE FIRST KODAK FILM LIKE?

                    The film for the first Kodak camera was 2¾ inches wide, or
                    70 millimeters. Kodak has been manufacturing 70-millimeter
                    film continuously since 1888.



                    WHAT WAS THOMAS EDISON'S FIRST MAJOR INVENTION?

                    Thomas Edison’s first major invention was the quadruplex
                    telegraph. Unlike other telegraphs at the time, it could
                    send four messages at the same time over one wire.



                    WHAT WAS INVENTED BY STEVE MCQUEEN?

                    U.S. Patent #D219,584 was issued in 1970 to veteran movie
                    actor Steve McQueen. He was famous not only for his movies
                    but also for racing cars and working on engines off-camera
                    as well. A byproduct of his racing hobby was the invention
                    of a bucket seat.



                    WHAT'S THE STORY BEHIND DISPOSABLE DIAPERS?

                    After Marion Donovan was inundated by the wild success of her
                    invention of waterproof diaper covers in 1946, she was
                    surprised when her prototype for disposal paper diapers was
                    met with disinterest and ridicule. She journeyed to all the
                    major U.S. paper companies, and was laughed at for proposing
                    such an "unnecessary and impractical" item to replace cotton
                    diapers. After nearly ten years of pitching her revolutionary
                    idea, Victor Mills had the foresight to capitalize on it, and
                    he became the creator of Pampers.



                    DID YOU KNOW...

                    Although it took less than a decade of space travel for
                    man to get to the moon, 19th- and 20th-century engineers
                    needed 22 years to design the zipper.

                    Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were not permitted to dance
                    together in public, according to their movie contracts.

                    In 1765, the sandwich was invented by John Montagu,
                    the fourth Earl of Sandwich, who gave the food its
                    name. The Earl used to order roast beef between
                    pieces of toast for a snack while he was at the
                    gaming tables, it allowed him to keep one hand
                    free to play while he ate.

                    Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William
                    never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.

                    Since 1874 the mints of the United States have been making
                    currency for foreign governments, whose combined orders
                    have at times exceeded the volume of domestic requirements.

                    The kings in a deck of cards each represent a great king
                    from history. The king of spades is King David, the king
                    of clubs is Alexander the Great, the king of hearts is
                    Charlemagne, and the king of diamonds is Julius Caesar.


                    WHAT WAS THE FIRST SELF-RISING FLOUR INVENTED?

                    In 1889, Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented at St. Joseph,
                    Missouri, was the first self-rising flour for pancakes and
                    the first ready-mix food ever to be introduced commercially.



                    WHAT VEGETABLE HAS NEGATIVE CALORIES?

                    Celery; it takes more calories to eat and digest a piece of
                    celery than the celery has in it initially.



                    WHAT IS NUTELLA?

                    A hazelnut spread made with skim milk and cocoa. It is vir-
                    tually unknown in America, but European children have
                    happily smeared it on breakfast croissants for decades.



                    HOW MUCH CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP IS PURCHASED
                    ANUALLY IN THE US? WHEN IS MOST OF IT PURCHASED?

                    About 350 million cans of chicken noodle soup of all
                    commercial brands sold annually in the United States,
                    60 percent is purchased during the cold and flu season.
                    January is the top-selling month of the year.



                    MARRIAGE
                    A happy marriage is a long conversation which always
                    seems too short.

                    An ideal marriage is one in which two people love,
                    cherish, and encourage each other through all the
                    trouble caused by their marriage.



                    HOW MANY GROOVES ARE ON THE EDGE OF A QUARTER?
                    119.


                    DO CANADIANS RECEIVE MAIL ON SATURDAY?
                    No, Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by
                    Canada Post on February 1, 1969.


                    WHAT WAS MICHELANGELO'S FULL NAME?

                    The prolific Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect
                    and poet was born Michelangelo di Lodovico
                    Buonarroti Simoni in March of 1475.



                    WHAT US THE KELVIN SCALE?

                    The Kelvin absolute temperature scale was proposed in 1848 by
                    physician and mathematician William Thomson based on his
                    studies of the theory of heat and thermodynamics. The Kelvin
                    temperature scale has as its lower limit absolute zero, a hypo-
                    thetical temperature characterized by a total absence of mol-
                    ecular motion and heat energy, so the scale has no negative
                    values. The Kelvin degree is the same size as the Celsius de-
                    gree, and the conversion from Kelvin to Celsius is done by
                    adding 273 degrees to the Celsius value. When using the Kelvin
                    scale, the degree symbol is omitted and the temperature is fol-
                    lowed by a "K". The scale derived the name Kelvin from the
                    title Baron Kelvin of Largs, bestowed upon Thomson in 1892. The
                    Kelvin scale is widely used by scientists, engineers, and meteo-
                    rologists.



                    The first magnets used were natural stones called
                    lodestones. The word "lode" means lead and so the stone
                    was used to magnetize compass needles and lead sailors home.


                    WHO INTRODUCED TOBACCO INTO ENGLAND IN THE EARLY 1600S?
                    Sir Walter Raleigh. 

                    WHAT QUIRK IS AUTHOR CHARLES DICKENS KNOWN FOR?
                    He always aligned his bed to face north. He also made it
                    a point to face north when he wrote.


                    WHO FIRST SUGGESTED THE USE OF A SWINGING PENDULUM
                    TO RUN A CLOCK?
                    Galileo, the famous astronomer. 

                    WHO WAS THE YOUNGEST AMERICAN OFFICER TO EVER
                    BECOME A GENERAL IN THE U.S ARMY?
                    George Custer. He made his rank at age twenty-three. 

                    WHAT PERCENTAGE OF AMERICAN MALES DO NOT USE DEODORANT?
                    According to one U.S. study, about 25 percent of all
                    adolescent and adult males never use deodorant. 

                    WHICH CELEBRITIES HAVE BECOME VICTIMS OF IDENTITY THEFT?
                    Celebrities whose identity has been stolen are: Oprah Winfrey,
                    Tiger Woods, and Steven Spielberg.

                    WHAT IS COPYLEFT?

                    Copyleft is a method for making a program free software and
                    requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to
                    be free software as well. Copyleft says that anyone who redis-
                    tributes the software, with or without changes, must pass along
                    the freedom to further copy and change it, and guarantees that
                    every user has freedom. The British magazine New Scientist
                    published an article under copyleft, which allows anyone to
                    copy or redistribute the article without violating a copyright.
                    It highlights an article about "open sourcing," a trend among
                    computer programmers to share programs without worrying about
                    payments or ownership. The weekly science magazine says the
                    movement "is all about free circulation of knowledge--an emerg-
                    ing alternative to growing corporate power and restrictive pro-
                    perty rights."



                   WHAT IS THE BEST-SELLING CAR OF ALL TIME?
                    The Toyota Corolla.

                    WHAT ANIMAL'S EYE IS BIGGER THAN ITS BRAIN?
                    The Ostrich. 

                    HOW MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHESS PIECES ARE THERE?
                    6: Pawn, Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen, King.

                    IN MUSIC, WHAT NUMBER NOTE IS A HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER?
                    64th.

                    WHAT WAS THE PROFESSION OF ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE,
                    AUTHOR OF THE SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES?
                    He was an ophthalmologist.


                    HOW MANY LITTLE PIGS WERE USED IN THE TITLE ROLE
                    DURING THE FILMING OF THE 1995 MOVIE HIT "BABE"?
                    Because baby pigs grow so quickly, 48 different
                    pigs were used.

                    HOW DOES A TOUCAN EAT?
                    Because its tongue is too short for its beak, the toucan
                    must juggle its food before swallowing it.


                    WITH WHAT ORGAN DO BUTTERFLIES TASTE?
                    Their feet. 

                    GOLD COMES IN HOW MANY COLORS?
                    Four: Yellow, white, rose, and green. 
WHO INVENTED THE LIE DETECTOR AND WHAT COMIC BOOK HEROINE DID HE ALSO INVENT?

Dr. William Moulton Marston invented the polygraph and he also invented Wonder Woman (who just so happens to carry a golden lasso that forces people to tell the truth!) Marston was convinced that women were more honest and reliable than men.

CALIFORNIA SMOG TEST
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QUOTATIONS

                    "What luck for the rulers that men do not think."
                    ANSWER: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Master-orator, psychopath,
                    political genius, prototypical dictator,
                    mass murderer.

                    "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
                    ANSWER: Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), film director.

                    "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into
                    an open sewer and die."
                    ANSWER: Mel Brooks, Writer/Director/Actor

                    "Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives
                    should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands,
                    love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and
                    gave Himself up for her."
                    Ephesians 5:24-25

                    "What luck for the rulers that men do not think."
                    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Justice of the United
                    States Supreme Court, U.S. legal historian and
                    philosopher.

                    "Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity
                    and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction
                    sap the vigor of the mind."
                    ANSWER: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian painter,
                    architect, engineer, mathematician and philosopher.

                    "My father always used to say that when you die, if you've
                    got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
                    Lee Iacocca

                    "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him
                    find it within himself."
                    -Galileo

                    "Ignorance is always swift to speak."
                    - Unknown

                    "Patience is the ability to count down before blasting off."
                    - Unknown

                    "Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
                    But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the
                    men who have to know about beautiful women."
                    ANSWER: Katharine Hepburn (1907-), American actress and
                    writer. Winner of four Oscars


THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU DIDN'T KNOW!
 Did you know...

 It is impossible to lick your elbow.

 A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.

 A shrimp's heart is in its head.

 In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a  single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

 It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

 A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

 More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a  telephone call.

 Horses can't vomit.

 The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

 If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

 If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die, they can pop out.

 Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a  million descendants.

 Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

 In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

 A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

 Most lipstick contains fish scales.

 Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

 Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.


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