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Vol 720 - Aug 13, 2008 - Strange & Unusual Facts
Twice weekly E-letter - StrangeCosmos.com - --------------------- NEW! - MySpace Members - Please NOTE that we have just added a TAB on each Joke Page and Image Page that NOW Makes it Easy for you to add "Strange" Items to your Individual MySpace pages! Just CLICK on the Bottom Right MySpace ICON! It's Quick & Easy! ------------------------ Are you ready to review the Best Humor, Coolest Pix and Political Parody on the Internet? Get ready to jump into something "Strange!" http://www.strangecosmos.com/index.html ================================== Strange Quotes About 'Character': Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. - Elmer G. Letterman A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799) When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. - Japanese Proverb To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character. - Marie Leneru, Oprah Magazine, May 2004 Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) ================================== Today's Featured Humor : -) - Strange & Unusual Facts Here are some unusual facts that you can use to prove superiority to your friends. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ...even your heart. This is why people have always said "God bless you" after a sneeze. Only 7% of the population are lefties. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines. The toothbrush was invented in 1498. The average housefly lives for one month. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. Don't ask how. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. Among the music catalog's that Michael Jackson owns the rights to, is the South Carolina State anthem. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery. Humphrey Bogart and Princess Diana were seventh cousins. 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