In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under frozen foods. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die. In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in Ireland. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather. Mosquitoes have teeth. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles. 19,200 college students streaked at the same time in Boulder, CO in 1974. In 1977, a 13-year-old boy discovered a tooth growing on his left foot. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas. The first sperm banks opened in 1964; they were located in Tokyo and Iowa City. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food. If an orangutan belches at you, watch out. He's warning you to stay out of his territory. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
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