By The Numbers
1 pound of lemons contain more sugar than 1 pound of strawberries.
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the Unites States.
10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
27% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
43.7% of all statistics are made up right on the spot.
80% of animals on earth are insects.
80% of arrested criminals are male.
Nancy's Nuggets
There was once a man and woman who had been married for more than 60 years. They had shared everything. They had talked about everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about.
For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover.
In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoe box and took it to his wife's bedside. She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the box.
When he opened it, he found two crocheted dolls and a stack of money totaling $25,000. He asked her about the contents. "When we were to be married," she said, "my grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll."
The little old man was so moved; he had to fight back tears. Only two precious dolls were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst with happiness. "Honey," he said, "that explains the dolls, but what about all of this money? Where did it
come from?"
"Oh," she said, "that's the money I made from selling the dolls."
Vacation Stories
Did you get to go away on vacation this summer? I didn't, but millions traveled as part of their summers. Here's a site where people have shared some of their more unique experiences. Bad Vacations is where you can read real life vacation horror stories from other travelers. Hopefully, you will never have one to add.
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Final Thoughts
Even a broken clock is right, twice a day ... including the time on my VCR.
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