There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways of playing just the
first four moves on each side in a game of chess.

In the 1970 Census, the U.S. had 2,983 men who were already
widowers at the age of fourteen and 289 women, also at four-
teen, who had already been widowed or divorced.

Mollusks, soft bodied animals with hard shells, are the sec-
ond largest population of living things.

The total population of the Earth at the time of Julius Cae-
sar was 150 million. The total population increase in two
years on Earth today is 150 million.

People who have never married are 7.5 times more likely to
be hospitalized in a state or community psychiatric facility
than those who married.

Barnum's Fiji Mermaid, an ugly, dried-up, black object about
three-feet (one-meter) long, was promoted as being half-
monkey and half-fish. It was eventually found to be a hoax.

Poet Edgar Allan Poe ran a long-running hoax promotion of a
manned balloon flight across the Atlantic.

Tourists flocked to Palisade, Nevada when the city boasted
its regular gunfights and street brawls. However, what the
visitors didn't know was that all the fights were staged.

A report in The Illustrated London News of February 9, 1856
claimed that a living pterodactyl (an extinct flying rep-
tile) had been discovered in France.

A hotel operator hoaxed tourists to visit his city by crea-
ting a "Silver Lake Serpent" that lured many people to the
area.

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger bought the first Hummer manufac-
tured for civilian use in 1992. The vehicle weighed in at
6,300 lbs and was 7 feet wide.

Americans consume 42 tons of aspirin per day.

Bayer was advertising cough medicine containing heroin in
1898.

Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and las-
er printers were all invented by women.

Cocaine was sold to cure sore throat, neuralgia, nervous-
ness, headache, colds and sleeplessness in the 1880s.

For two years, during the 1970s, Mattel marketed a doll
called "Growing Up Skipper." Her breasts grew when her arm
was turned.

Coprophobia- Fear of Feces

Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.

Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.

Olfactophobia- Fear of smells.

Anablephobia- Fear of looking up.

Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.

Tonsurphobia - Fear of haircuts.

Anthophobia - Fear of roses.

A New Zealand man is building a cruise missile in his gar-
age, just to prove to defense officials he can. Bruce Simp-
son runs a Web site, not to provide terrorists with the
plans for a working cruise missile, but to prove the point
that nations need to be better prepared. "I myself knew it
would be easy, but I was stunned at just how easy it was,"
he tells the Australian Broadcasting Corp. He hopes to
build the cruise missile with legal, off-the-shelf equipment
for less than $5,000. His last project involved building a
jet engine in his backyard and using it to cool his beer. His
Web site said at the time, "The risks should be obvious."

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A mother and her two daughters in Plainview, TX received
quite a shock while driving near a prison facility and saw
three inmates being strip-searched. The horrified mother
said that the naked trio was out there for everyone to see.
According to the assistant warden, the strip search is rou-
tine at the jail for new inmates and was only visible to the
public because a section of partition had fallen. The mother
felt that the searches could have been conducted elsewhere,
away from the public eye. She commented, "If I look at a
naked man, I want it to be of my own accord."

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Customers at Jean Bowyer's bakery in South Carolina enjoy
chicken-and-dumpling popsicles, beef liver, and turkey and
cheese flavored cookies. This may sound unusual and dis-
gusting, but not when your customers are of the canine sort.
Bower is the owner of K-9 Union Hall & Bakery, which caters
to dogs and the owners that love them. Other menu items in-
clude turkey muffins and canine sushi. Bower also creates
three layered birthday cakes for Fido, baked from corn and
flour meal mixed with liver, and smeared with icing appro-
priate for canines. The Union Hall also offers dogs a bet-
ter social life with birthday parties complete with dog
guests and treat-filled pinatas.

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In Kingsville, Texas, it is against the law for two pigs to
have sex on the city's airport property.

It is illegal for hens to lay eggs before 8 a.m. and after 4
p.m. in Norfolk, Virginia.

Ducks quacking after 10 p.m. in Essex Falls, New Jersey are
breaking the law.

In Quitman, Georgia, it is against the law for a chicken to
cross any road within the city limits.

In McDonald, Ohio, farmers cannot march a goose down a city
street. And fowl, particularly roosters, are prohibited from
going into bakeries in Massachusetts.

Dogs in Foxpoint, Wisconsin, may not bark profusely, snarl,
or make any menacing gestures.

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If your derriere has gotten a little droopy, then the "butt
bra" is for you. This device will hoist a sagging rear to
perkier, more glorious heights and is called the Biniki (not
to be confused with a bikini). It is made of nylon and
elastic straps and lingerie hooks. The creator of this butt
booster, Karin Hart, became obsessed with helping her bottom
fight gravity after she lost 15 pounds in a month and looked
like she had "elephant legs." Originally, she used tape to
hold up her tush, but that was not comfortable, so she moved
to a system of ribbons and wires that evolved into the Biniki.
Now you can raise your rump by going on the Internet and pur-
chasing your own butt bra for only $29.95.

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When someone cuts a good one in a crowded elevator or bus, the
waft can be almost suffocating. For hundreds of cattle on long
voyages across the globe, such gassy emissions have been
lethal. Cows fart themselves to death by emitting fatally high
levels of ammonia during the lengthy trips. In the cramped,
hot and poorly ventilated cattle holds, the ammonia-rich gas
can quickly cause respiratory problems and death. A cause for
concern was raised last year when one voyage found fatalities
to 900 cows. So, next time you have to let one rip in a small,
crowded area, try to hold it in; you could be saving lives.

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