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Numbers you might need

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Here are some useless facts I found and thought I’d pass along. For the record, if this is right then somebody’s using some of my toilet paper ration!
* A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per […]

Separated At Birth #15: Barack Obama and Peter “Apophis” Williams

I’ve had a few people express the opinion that I should do a “Separated At Birth” post for Barack Obama. One person wanted me to compare him to someone from a group of motorcycle accident attorneys, but I just didn’t see the resemblance.
The other night we were watching Stargate SG1 and it hit me: Barack […]

Early diet pills claimed to contain tape worms

I was wandering around on snopes.com just now because I find that site a little bit addictive. I picked up a bit of trivia that is both interesting and slightly disgusting. It seems that around the beginning of the 20th century some companies were advertising diet pills that worked because the capsule actually contained a […]

Trivia for 9/4/2007

* More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
…and half of the group who has used the telephone has, at one time or another, called my home to discuss credit cards I don’t own, warn me about the warranty on my 27-year old truck that is […]

Trivia for 9/3/2007

* In average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
(My appologies for posting this a day late. I accidently clicked “save” instead of “Publish” on wordpress’s controll panel last ight. I am a nitwit.)
This would be yet another of those factoids that I’ve collected […]