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1)"Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are."
-Matt Lauer on NBC's Today Show, August 22nd.		 5)"Whenever I watch T.V. and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry.I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
-Mariah Carey.
2)"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
-David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.		 6)"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
-Brooke Sheilds during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal antismoking campaign.
3)"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. WE are the president."
-Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.		 7)"China is a big country inhabited by many Chinese."
-Former French President Charles De Gaulle.
4)"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
-Former Mayor Marion Barry, Washington,DC.		 8)"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
-Former US Vice President Dan Quayle.
1)Include Your Children when Baking Cookies 20)Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
2)Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers 21)Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted
3)Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case 22)Survivor of Siamese Twins Joins Parents
4)Iraqi Head Seeks Arms 23)Prostitutes Appeal to Pope
5)British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands 24)Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
6)Lung Cancer in Women Mushrooms 25)Eye Drops Off Shelf
7)Teachers Strike Idle Kids 26)Clinton Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead
8)Enraged Cow Injures Farmer With Ax 27)Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told
9)Miners Refuse to Work after Death 28)Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
10)Stolen Painting Found by Tree 29)Two Sisters Reunited After 18 Years in Checkout Counter
11)Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years 30)War Dims Hope for Peace
12)If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last a While 31)Never Withhold Herpes Infection from Loved One
13)Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures 32)Deer Kill 17,000
14)Enfields Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide 33)Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges
15)Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead 34)Man Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge
16)New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group 35)Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
17)Kids Make Nutritious Snacks 36)Chef Throws His Heart into Helping Feed Needy
18)Ban On Soliciting Dead in Trotwood 37)Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
19)Arson Suspect Held in Massachusetts Fire 38)Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
TOP FIVE THINGS YOU DON'T WANT TO SAY WHEN YOU'RE ON SUMMER BREAK TOP FIVE SURPRISING THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT MICROSOFT FOUNDER BILL GATES
#1) "My mom made this Star Trek uniform for me."
#2)"Would you like to come back to my house and see my comic book collection?"
#3)"Hey! You and I have the same asthma medicine."
#4)"Why yes, that is a calculator in my pocket, and no, I'm not glad to meet you."
#5). "I'll be right back after I check in with my parole officer."		 #1) He can bench press his own weight in floppy disks.
#2) Founded the first Klingon Language Camp.
#3) He does NOT have a collection of pocket protectors at his house . . . it's at the office.
#4) At Microsoft, anybody using the term "computer geek" is beaten to a pulp . . . by wimpy guys who never date and spend all their time in front of their PCs.
#5) Gate's senior class voted him "Most Likely to Own Most of North America"
TOP FIVE REJECTED TV SHOW PILOTS TOP FIVE REJECTED "JERRY SPRINGER SHOW" TOPICS
#1) "Thirty Minutes of Canned Laughter"
#2) "Trekkie Only Dating Game"
#3) "American's Most Frequent Groin Injuries"
#4) New game show - "What's My Inseam?"
#5) "My Mother, the Sport Utility Vehicle"
 #1) "My Teenager is a Pleasure to Live With!"
#2) "The Woman I'm Dating is Really . . . a Woman!"
#3) "I Have Normal Sized Breasts and I Keep Them Discreetly Covered!"
#4) "I Can't Believe It! My Sister Married a Doctor!"
#5) "I'm an Accountant and I'm Mildly Peeved!"
1)Although identified with Scotland, bagpipes are actually a very ancient instrument, introduced into the British Isles by the Romans.
2)Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney collected thirty-five Oscars.
3)By the time a child finishes elementary school she will have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on television.
4)C3P0 is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
5)Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.
6)Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott." and "Scotty, beam me up," in Star Trek 5
7)Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.
8)Donald Duck lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota.
9)Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
10)Even though they broke up 25 years ago, the Beatles continue to sell more records each year than the Rolling Stones.
11)George Harrison, with "My Sweet Lord," was the first Beatle to have a Number 1 hit single following the group's breakup
12)In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
13)In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer's name is Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward.
14)MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981 The first music-video shown on the rock-video cable channel was, appropriately, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. MTV's original five veejays were Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, J.J. Jackson and Alan Hunter.
15)Napoleon Bonaparte is the historical figure most often portrayed in movies. He has been featured in 194 movies, Jesus Christ in 152, and Abraham Lincoln in 137.
16)The 1st comic strip was "The Yellow Kid," in the New York World in 1896. The cartoonist was Richard Felton Outcault.
17)The 1st interracial kiss on TV took place Nov. 22, 1968 between Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Lt.Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) on an episode of "Star Trek."
18)The 1st time the "f-word" was spoken in a movie was by Marianne Faithfull in the 1968 film, "I'll Never Forget Whatshisname." In Brian De Palma's 1984 movie, "Scarface," the word is spoken 206 times - an average of once every 29 seconds.
19)The Beatles' 1st song to hit the UK charts was "From Me to You" in June, 1963
20)The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
21)The characters of Homer, Marge, Lisa, and Maggie were given the same first names as Simpsons creator Matt Groening's real-life father, mother, and two sisters.
22)The first CD pressed in the US - for commercial release - was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'.
23)The song "Happy Birthday to You" was originally written by sisters Mildred and Patty Hill as "Good Morning to You." The words were changed and it was published in 1935.
24)The title role of Dirty Harry, 1971, was originally intended for Frank Sinatra. After he refused, it was offered to John Wayne, and then Paul Newman, finally being accepted by Clint Eastwood.
25)There are 11 points on the collar around Kermit the Frog's neck.
26)Walt Disney's first cartoon character was called Oswald the Rabbit.
27)When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.
1)All the proceeds earned from James M. Barrie's book "Peter Pan" were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for the Sick Children in London.
2)Bilbo Baggins was born on September 22 1290.
3)Brabara Cartland is the world's top-selling author with over 500 million copies sold.
4)John Milton used 8,000 different words in his poem, "Paradise Lost."
5)Professor Moriarity was Sherlock Holmes' archenemy.
6)Sherlock Holmes never said 'Elementary, my dear Watson.'
7)Ghosts appear in 4 Shakespearian plays; Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth.
8)Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 different words.
9)Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator. It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.
1)"Aromatherapy" is a term coined by French chemist René Maurice Gattefossé in the 1920's to describe the practice of using essential oils taken from plants, flowers, roots, seeds, etc., in healing.
2)"Rhythms" is the longest English word without vowels.
3)A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).
4)A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.
5)Cannibalism, eating human flesh, is also called anthropophagy.
6)Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
7)In 1945 a computer at Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated, found a moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have a bug in it.
8)No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
9)The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."
10)The last thing to happen is the ultimate. The next-to-last is the penultimate, and the second-to-last is the antepenultimate.
11)The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
12)The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
13)The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding or milling.
14)The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.
15)The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
16)The word "assassination" was invented by Shakespeare.
17)The world's largest alphabet is Cambodian, with 74 letters.
18)The world's most widely spoken language is the Mandarin dialect of Chinese, with 500 million speakers.
19)The ZIP in Zip-code stands for "Zoning Improvement Plan."
20)When ocean tides are at their highest, they are called "spring tides." When they are at their lowest, they are call "neap tides."
1) About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
2) For drinking, washing, etc., an average American uses 168 gallons of water per day. The average American residence uses 107,000 gallons per year.
3) Hans Christian Andersen, Cher, Tom Cruise, Albert Einstein, Whoopie Goldberg, Greg Louganis, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Gen. George S. Patton, are (were) all dyslexics.
4) Humans are the only animals that copulate face to face.
5) In 1900 the average age at death in the US was 47.
6) More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
7) Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
8) The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
9) The kiss that is given by the bride to the groom at the end of the wedding ceremony originates from the earliest times when the couple would actually make love for the first time under the eyes of half the village!
10) The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.
11) The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers listed before World War II ... and none after.
12) The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
13) Women shoplift more often than men; the statistics are 4 to 1.
1) Britain's first escalator was installed in Harrods in 1878
2) Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
3) Chewing gum was patented in 1869 by William Semple.
4) Coca-Cola was so named back in 1885 for its two 'medicinal' ingredients: extract of coca leaves and kola nuts. As for how much cocaine was originally in the formulation, it's hard to know.
5) For two years, during the 1970s, Mattel marketed a doll called "Growing Up Skipper." Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.
6) In M&M candies, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie, the developers of the candy in 1941
7) Insulin was discovered in 1922 by Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best.
8) Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I
9) Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of linen.
10) The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500's.
11) The first US consumer product sold in the Soviet Union was Pepsi-Cola.
12) VHS stands for Video Home System.
13) Wrigley's promoted their new spearmint-flavored chewing gum in 1915 by mailing 4 sample sticks to each of the 1.5 million names listed in US telephone books.