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Weird Facts: Moose That Fell Off A Cliff Nearly Squashes Alaska Trooper's P
2008-02-13 15:30:00
weird factsAP) Alaska State Troopers see plenty of hazards, but Trooper Howard Peterson was nearly felled by a new one: falling moose. Peterson was driving Feb. 2 on the Seward Highway south of Anchorage when something big and black fell out of the sky about 20 feet in front of his patrol car. "Falling rock!" he thought, ready to steer clear if it bounced onto the highway.The thing didn't roll or shatter. It turned out to be a moose that fell from cliffs next to the highway.Drivers often see Dall sheep on the cliffs but rarely moose. Peterson estimates the animal fell 150 feet or more.It was windy that night, Peterson said, and a gust may have startled the moose into a fatal fall."They occasionally have bad days like the rest of us," said wildlife biologist Rick Sinnott. "They slip and fall. Maybe he was reaching for a branch and the snow just gave way."Sinnott has heard or moose dying in strange ways _ breaking through ice and drowning, jumping off railroad bridges at the sound of...
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Weird Facts: Woman Declaired Dead By Mistake ... Twice
2008-02-12 14:27:00
weird factsSUMMIT, N.J. (AP)A 57-year-old New Jersey woman has been declared dead twice in the past year by the Social Security Administration, despite the fact that she is very much alive.Susan Lindsley, who is developmentally disabled and works about 10 hours a week, relies on Social Security income to get by.Two months after the Summit, N.J., resident's husband died, the SSA not only stopped her disability and her widow's benefit payments, but also dipped into her bank account in July to reclaim $7,000.The agency wrote to Lindsley's brother, John Adam of Staten Island, offering condolences on the loss of his sister.The mix-up was cleared up, but two weeks later she was declared dead again. Lindsley's brother had to call eight elected officials for help before she was resurrected once and for all.[Via - wcbstv.com]Who Else Wants a Free copy of our Internet "Business-In-A-Box" ?British men pick big TV over sexMan Makes Bomb Threat To Get Beerinformative speech topics
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Weird Facts: British men pick big TV over sex
2008-02-11 16:21:00
weird factsNearly half of British men surveyed would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma TV, a survey - perhaps unsurprisingly carried out for a firm selling televisions - has found.Electrical retailer Comet surveyed 2,000 Britons, asking them what they would give up for a large television, one of the latest consumer "must-haves".The firm found 47 per cent of men would give up sex for half a year, compared to just over a third of women."It seems that size really does matter more for men than women," the firm said.A quarter of people said they would give up smoking, with roughly the same proportion willing to give up chocolate.[Via - Stuff.Co.Nz]Who Is Shawn Casey ? Is he For Real ?What if you had a gun to your head and had to make a $1000 in 48 hours ?Man Makes Bomb Threat To Get BeerThe $400-A-Bottle BeerMarijuana Vending Machines to Begin Operating in California
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Weird Facts: Man Makes Bomb Threat To Get Beer
2008-02-09 14:33:00
weird factsA Virginia Beach man says he called in a bomb threat to a Target store to get the police away from a grocery store across the street just to rob it of beer!The saga all started Wednesday afternoon when Virginia Beach Emergency Communications got a 911 call from a pay phone in the Birdneck Shopping Center.The caller, 24-year-old Keith Hamrah, told the dispatcher that a bomb had been placed inside the Target store on First Colonial Road. Hamrah said the bomb was set to blow up as soon and there were armed men outside of the store.Police officers and the bomb squad responded to Target and evacuated the building. The Department's Bomb Squad was notified and responded to the scene. They checked out the area and found it to be safe.Two detectives went back to the pay phone Hamrah had used and started searching the area for suspects.That's when they found a man who was apparently drunk and was subsequently arrested for public intoxication. It turned out to be Hamrah.In an ...
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Weird Facts: How To Build A Successful Million Dollar Business On Hating Pr
2008-02-05 13:35:00
http://www.bushslastday.com/weird factsFor three years, a Bush-hating Vermont pipe carver has built a million-dollar business around the digits "01.20.09."On Jan. 20, 2009 -- one year from today -- Elliot Nachwalter and his company, "Bush's Last Day," will have to find new inspiration.That's the day President George W. Bush leaves the White House."I have a couple little products lined up. Both of them have nothing to do with politics," Nachwalter said. "I'd like to think this time we won't have to do another end-of-term button."First doodled on a dining room table, then slapped onto lapel buttons, "01.20.09" has become wildly popular."It was like a bulb, a light went off," said Nachwalter, who drew it in a fit of pique prompted by Bush's refusal to sign a piece of environmental legislation. "I started giving them out to my friends and anybody who thought it was interesting, and I couldn't have enough of them. I said 'Maybe I should think about selling them.'"Now, more than 6...
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AeroGarden Review And How To Get One For Free
2008-02-03 11:13:00
I was lamenting about only having frech lettuce, herbs, chives, and tomatoes from may garden during the long fall-winter-spring parts of the year. The refrigerated stuff from the grocery store goes bad right away and does not taste as good as the fresh stuff from the garden, either.ads:Speech TopicsThen I saw a Time Magazine page on the new AeroGrow AeroGarden, and I just had to try it out. After reading the AeroGrow website before making the purchase, I realized that buying one garden would not work for me, as the tomatoes cannot be grown in the same garden as lettuce & herbs. This is partially due to the large amount of room taken up by the tomatoes, and also because the lamp/watering cycle is different and finally because the nutrients are different.So, I bought two gardens, along with the Salad Greens seed kit and Cherry Tomato seed kit. Each garden comes with a mixed herb kit, so I figured to mix in a few herbs with the other seeds, and if they did not work, no big loss.The...
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Weird Facts: The $400-A-Bottle Beer
2008-01-31 20:03:00
weird factsCOPENHAGEN, Denmark -- It will take more than a few bucks to buy this bottle of brew.Carlsberg ASA officials said the brewery's new Vintage No. 1 beer is probably the world's best and most expensive.The Danish brewer is charging about $400 for a single bottle of less than a pint. Brewmaster Jens Eiken said only 600 bottles of the beer will be made and most will be sold through three of Copenhagen's most exclusive restaurants. He said more than 50 have already been purchased.Try to find the speech topics you like, play our free typing games, submit your own weird facts or try interesnye fakty if you're russian.The brewmaster said the beer, which weighs in at about 10.5 percent alcohol, is stored in Swedish French oak casks in a special place about 50 feet below Carlsberg's old brewery.Consumers won't be returning the empties for a deposit. Each bottle has a hand-stenciled label by a well-known artist. The empties are said to be worth about $100 each.[Via - Local6]
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Funny Weird Facts
2008-01-30 07:49:00
weird facts 1. Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating. 2. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia. 3. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult. 4. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second. 5. A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood. 6. During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants. 7. Dolphins sleep with one eye open. 8. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. 9. There wasn’t a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses. 10. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. Interesnye Fakty
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Weird Facts: Marijuana Vending Machines to Begin Operating in California
2008-01-29 21:08:00
weird factsVending machines distributing the drug marijuana are to begin operating in the US state of California .The machines can only be used by people who have been prescribed the drug for health reasons.Patients will have to provide a prescription, and be fingerprinted and photographed before being allowed to use the facilities.Eleven US states allow the medicinal use of marijuana, primarily for pain relief, but it remains controversial.Vince Mehdizadeh, owner of the Herbal Nutrition Centre in Los Angeles, where one of the two first machines is based, said it would allow patients to buy extra supplies whenever needed.Series of checksOnce the users have been photographed, fingerprinted and have shown their prescription, they will be issued with a card which can be used in the machines, he told KWTX News 10 in the US."They'll be greeted by a security guard right there. They'll slide the card in and they'll fingerprint in to verify that it's them," he was quoted by KWTX News 10 ...
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Weird Facts: Six People Are Locked Up In A Nuclear Bunker [Video Documentar
2008-01-24 12:51:00
weird factsSix people are taken to a nuclear bunker and subjected to a world without sensory stimulation. Three subjects are left alone in dark, sound-proofed rooms, while the other three are given goggles and foam cuffs as white noise is piped into their ears. Over the 48 hour experiment their brains undergo strange alterations.Watch Now..."Weird Facts " is now Social Bookmarking siteBoomerang Comes Back After 25 Years Choose from a variety of speech topicsfree typing games
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Weird Facts: What a Jolt! Roommates Get $100,000 Electric Bill
2008-01-23 13:59:00
Vote for the best weird facts hereTAMPA (weird facts) - A Tampa man and his roommate almost had to pay their $100,000 electric bill.Richard Grieshop and Lynda Williams live in a one-bedroom mobile home. Both use wheelchairs and live on fixed incomes.Grieshop says their power was turned off during the holidays. With help from friends and social services, they got it turned back on about two weeks ago.He says he called the Tampa Electric Co. and was told to pay up or face having his power turned off again.A company spokesman tells WFLA TV that the bill was caused by a system error and that they don't owe that amount.[Via - Sun-Sentinel]10 Videos That Will Change Your Mind About Conspiracy TheoriesWho else wants to get a Free copy of our internet business-in-a-box ?Interesnye Fakty (russian only) !
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Gambling Is The Future Of The Internet
2008-01-22 17:46:00
"The day you decide to do it is your lucky day"Japanese proverbAre you new to online gambling? Have you ever spent money on something before? Well, if you want to start now I can help you avoid bad situations and focus on having fun and making money.A recently launched online casino, CasinoRoom.com turned out to be a success story of 2005. Debuting in the world of online gambling with a fair head start of up to $100 sign-up bonus, attractive enough for any player to try an enjoyable game, placing itself among the best rated casinos.CasinoRoom.com draws you into the heart of the very casino from the minute you lay eyes on it and you just can't wait to get started. Even though I'm a regular at this casino, I never tire of this sight.Run by the well respected Ongame Networks, playing at this casino is even more of a treat and it is, in my opinion, one of the most professionally run entities on the net. All Jackpots caters for players of all skill levels, and offers some amazing bonus...
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Weird Facts: Sweden To Study Belching Cows
2008-01-22 13:42:00
Tired of bullshit ?! - Post your own weird factsweird facts(AP) A Swedish university has received 3.8 million kronor $590,000) in research funds to measure the greenhouse gases released when cows belch.About 20 cows will participate in the project run by the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, about 40 miles north of Stockholm, officials said Monday.Cattle release methane, a greenhouse gas believed to contribute to global warming, when they digest their food. Researchers believe the level of methane released depends on the type of food the eat.Project leader Jan Bertilsson said that the cows involved in the study will have different diets and wear a collar device measuring the methane level in the air around them."This type of research is already being conducted in Canada so we will be in contact with Canadian agricultural researchers in the near future," he said.The research will be funded by a grant from the government's Swedish Research Council for Environme...
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Weird Facts: Not Fair! Bank Robber Wins $1 Million Lottery
2008-01-20 14:08:00
Tired of bullshit ?! - Post your own weird factsweird factsBARNSTABLE, Mass. - The luck keeps rolling for a convicted bank robber in Massachusetts who won a $1 million lottery prize.Although he violated his probation by buying the ticket, a judge says he can keep the money.A lawyer for Timothy Elliott, 55, called the violation minor, and the Massachusetts lottery commission previously said it saw no basis for withdrawing the prize.Barnstable Superior Court Judge Richard Connon approved the probation department's agreement that he could keep the winnings. The only change is that Elliott now must pay a monthly $65 probation supervisory fee, previously waived because he had been indigent.Elliott pleaded guilty in October 2006 to unarmed robbery for a Cape Cod bank heist and was placed on five years' probation. The terms required him to not "gamble, purchase lottery tickets or visit an establishment where gaming is conducted"The jackpot was won on $10 ticket for the "$800 Million Spec...
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Weird Facts: Man Receives Paychecks Five Years After Leaving Job, Pockets $
2008-01-18 18:05:00
weird facts$469,000 payroll error at a New Jersey company has earned an Illinois man a date with police. Anthony Armatys of Palatine, Ill., was arrested Wednesday on theft charges after allegedly receiving electronic payroll bank deposits from a New Jersey company he never worked for, authorities said.Officials at Avaya Inc., a telecommunications provider located in Basking Ridge, discovered checks had been mistakenly direct deposited into his account for nearly five years, according to the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office.Armatys, 34, had accepted a position with Avaya years ago, authorities said, but he rescinded the acceptance before he ever started working. However, a system error resulted in checks being deposited into Armatys' bank account from the fall of 2002 to March of 2007, when the company discovered the error, officials said.During that time, Armatys collected more than $469,000 in pay and even withdrew approximately $1,900 from his company retirement account admin...
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Weird Facts: 'Stock' Beats 'Sex' on Google China
2008-01-12 18:15:00
weird factsBEIJING (Reuters)—The names of three banks and the word "stocks" beat "sex" to become four of the most Google d words in China last year, according to a Google China list seen on Thursday.China Merchants Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and China Construction Bank ranked second, third and sixth, according to a list supplied by Google China on its website (www.google.cn)."On the Chinese mainland, it was money and technology that took the honors last year," the China Daily said, pointing out that "sex" was the most popular keyword for Google users in some other countries.Fourth on the list was "stock", not surprising with Shanghai shares having risen 97 percent last year. At number 1 was "QQ", a Chinese instant message service and a brand of car.China's Central Bank, the Ministry of Finance and Banking Regulatory Commission ranked first, third and fifth in the "Most Popular Departments" list, the Web site said.In another list named "qiu zhi", or "seeking know...
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Weird Facts: Colombia Opens Museum Of Laziness
2008-01-12 18:11:00
weird factsA museum dedicated to laziness has opened in Colombia 's capital, Bogota.The event features sofas placed in front of televisions, hammocks and beds - anything associated with the avoidance of work.The idea is to get people during the holiday season to think about laziness and its opposite, extreme work, and perhaps reach some balanced conclusion.Visitors will have to shed their laziness long enough to get to the museum soon - it closes in a week.'Social issues'The BBC's Jeremy McDermott in Colombia says Bogota's newest museum, sponsored by the city government, is much-visited and could be ideal for those overwhelmed by the traffic, the fumes, the fast pace of life or the pressures of work.Marcela Arrieta, the museum curator, told Associated Press news agency: "We always think about laziness as an enemy of work."So we wanted to explore that and make people think about the social issues implied in taking a nap, in being jobless or in feeling that maybe we are wasting ti...
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Weird Facts: Couple Gets Married In A Bank
2008-01-12 18:05:00
weird factsA bank teller and her fiance were banking on love when they tied the knot at a Bank of America branch. Sharon Paine and Thaigo Goes exchanged vows in the Sabattus Street branch lobby Tuesday as customers went about their business making financial transactions.For ambiance, a candle was put on top of a copier, a linen tablecloth was draped over a desk and music from rocker Bryan Adams played over a speaker. "We’re having a wedding," branch manager Deanna Kinsey told customers.The 24-year-old Paine is a Bank of America teller who used to work at the Sabattus Street branch. She and Goes, who is also 24, were planning on a legal ceremony and were surprised when bank employees made it into a more elaborate affair.[Via - The Weird World Of Economics]$83,000 Phone BillChinese Company Destroys $130 Million Plane With Caustic Chemicals35 Weird Facts You Never Heard Of
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Weird Facts: Man Buys A New Truck With Spare Change He Saved For 13 Years
2007-12-25 18:16:00
weird facts(AP) FRANKFORT, Ind. - Paul Brant considers himself a penny pincher, but his savings in quarters and dollar coins really paid off.Brant, 70, used more than $25,000 in change to help buy a new Dodge Ram half-ton pickup truck Friday _ 13 years after buying another truck with spare change."(The old truck) didn’t have four-wheel drive, and living in the country, I figured I better get a new one to help get me through the snow," he said.Brant said he was raised to be thrifty. His father always paid in cash and saved up loose change to take vacations.Brant has been storing his change for years, and estimated he had about $26,000 in coins for Friday’s purchase. In 1994, he bought a Dodge pickup and a Dodge Neon using about $36,000 in quarters."As long as you don’t put your hands back in the till, it really adds up," he said.Brant stored his change in coffee cans, water jugs and piggy banks over the years, and was escorted by sheriff’s deputies as he brought the rolled co...
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Weird Facts: Woman Spends 3 Days In Walmart
2007-12-23 15:58:00
weird factsA Wal-Mart shopper overstayed her welcome at the 24-hour store in Lilburn. Gwinnett County police escorted the shopper home after she stayed there for three days eating and sleeping inside the store.Between the traffic, the congestion and the crowds -- spending more than 5 minutes at a Wal-Mart at this point in the game, makes up most Christmas shoppers' nightmares."It's my first time here but it's pretty crowded. There's a lot of people in there," said one shopper.At the 24-hour Wal-Mart in Lilburn, police said a 70-year-old woman spent three days inside the store sleeping, shopping and eating at the on-site Blimpie."Three days in any store is a little crazy, but in a Wal-Mart...yeah," said a shopper.Despite what most people think about such and experience, it is likely that because of all the shoppers, the woman was able to blend in with the carts, crowds and chaos and go unnoticed for 72 hours a week before Christmas. When asked by Wal-Mart employees why she was th...
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Weird Facts: Winner, Loser And Their Amazing Story
2007-12-20 07:25:00
weird factsIn 1958, a New York man named Robert Lane decided to call his baby son Winner . The Lanes, who lived in a housing project in Harlem, already had several children, each with a fairly typical name. But this boy – well, Robert Lane apparently had a special feeling about this one. Winner Lane: how could he fail with a name like that?Three years later, the Lanes had another baby boy, their seventh and last child. For reasons that no one can quite pin today, Robert decided to name this boy Loser. It doesn’t appear that Robert was unhappy about the new baby; he just seemed to get a kick out of the name’s bookend effect. First a Winner, now a Loser. But if Winner Lane could hardly be expected to fail, how could Looser Lane possibly succeed?Loser Lane did in fact succeed. He went to prep school on a scholarship, graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, and joined NYPD (it was his mother’s longtime wish). Although he never hid his name, people were uncomfortable usi...
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Weird Facts: It Ain't No Texas - Denver Is The 'Drunkest City' In US
2007-12-18 17:26:00
weird factsColorado and Texas residents may like their drink a little too much.That's at least according to a study conducted by Men's Health magazine to determine the nation's most dangerously drunk cities.Topping the list as the nation's "Drunkest City ," according to the study, was Denver . Fellow Colorado communities Colorado Springs and Aurora rated third and 19th respectively. Denver was rated the most dangerously drunk city in 2006 as well.Meanwhile, Texas joined Colorado as the only state with more than one city falling in the "top" 10 on the list, with San Antonio ranking sixth, Austin coming in seventh and Lubbock in the ninth spot.Other communities making the top 10 list included second-ranked Anchorage, Alaska, fourth-ranked Omaha, Neb., fifth-ranked Fargo, N.D., eighth-ranked Fresno, Calif., and 10th-ranked Milwaukee, Wis.The magazine says it looked at factors such as annual death rates due to alcoholic liver disease, drunk-driving arrests and the percentage of fatal ...
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Weird Facts: $90 Game Sells For Over $9000 On EBay
2007-12-17 12:42:00
weird factsMONTREAL (AFP) - After catching his 15-year-old smoking pot, a father sold the hard-to-get “Guitar Hero III” video game he bought his son for 90 dollars for Christmas at an online auction, fetching 9,000 dollars.The sale took place after the father spent two weeks searching for the video game for the Nintendo Wii gameboard.“So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of Christmas presents pretty much just in the nick of time. I couldn’t wait to spread the jubilance to my son,” the father wrote on the eBay website.“Then, yesterday, I came home from work early and what do I find? My innocent little boy smoking pot in the back yard with two of his delinquent friends.”The man, a school teacher, who kept his identity private, said he sold the coveted video game to punish his son and discourage him from smoking dope.The sale was a boon for the family’s bank account, since the game the father purchased for 90 dollars (US) was finally sold to an ...
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Weird Facts: $83,000 Phone Bill
2007-12-15 15:43:00
weird factsTORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian oil-field worker, stunned to get a C$85,000 ($83,700) cell phone bill, has had the charges reduced to C$3,400, but is still fighting them.Piotr Staniaszek, a 22-year-old oil and gas well tester in rural northwest Alberta, became a figure of international media attention this week when his father went to the press to complain about the size of his son's bill.Staniaszek's father, also named Piotr Staniaszek, said his son thought he could use his new phone as a modem for his computer as part of his C$10 unlimited browser plan from Bell Mobility, a division of Bell Canada.He downloaded movies and other high-resolution files unaware of the charges they would incur."He's working in the field sometimes, alone, in the shack. What to do? Drink vodka or go on the Internet?" Staniaszek senior told Reuters on Thursday from Calgary, Alberta."Now it's $85,000 and nobody told him," he said.According to his invoice, the son rang up C$60,000 in charges i...
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Weird Facts: Human Calculator's New Record
2007-12-13 12:20:00
weird factsWorld's fastest human calculator today broke his own record for working out a 200-digit number using nothing but brain power to produce the answer in just over 70 seconds.Alexis Lemaire, a 27-year-old Frenchman, correctly calculated the 13th root of a random 200-digit number from a possible 393 trillion answers.The so-called 'mathlete' produced the answer of 2,407,899,893,032,210 in 70.2 seconds, beating his previous record of 72.4 seconds, at London's Science Museum.A computer was used to produce a random 200-digit number before he sat down to calculate the answer in his head.The museum's curator of mathematics, Jane Wess, said: "He sat down and it was all very quiet - and all of a sudden he amazingly just cracked it."I believe that it is the highest sum calculated mentally."He seems to have a large memory and he's made this his life's ambition. It's quite remarkable to see it happen. A very small number of people have this extraordinary ability; nowadays there i...
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Weird Facts: 100 million pennies displayed in NYC
2007-12-11 19:01:00
weird factsNEW YORK -- One hundred million pennies for your thoughts on the latest display in Rockefeller Center. New York first lady Silda Wall Spitzer joined hundreds of public school children on Monday to unveil a mass of $1 million in pennies collected for charity. The display, called the Penny Harvest Field, includes an estimated 100 million pennies - plus a few nickels, dimes and quarters that slipped in by mistake.The exhibit, 30 feet by 165 feet, as long as a city block, is the culmination of the nonprofit organization Common Cents' 17th annual Penny Harvest, a national educational program designed to teach children about their value as contributors to society. Hundreds of thousands of city students from more than 800 schools spent the weeks between Oct. 22 and Thanksgiving going door to door and collecting the pennies, which will be donated to organizations of their choice for causes such as protecting the environment and helping the elderly.The exhibit was designed by arc...
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Weird Facts: How To Get Paid For Your Opinion - ePoll.com
2007-12-10 14:11:00
weird factsThe E-Poll Market Research Panel was founded in 1997, and has a primary focus on gathering research on consumer attitudes and behavior towards entertainment and media. Members are invited to take mostly entertainment and media related surveys, and membership to the panel is free.Members that complete these online surveys are rewarded with points that can be redeemed for gift certificates from online retailers like Amazon.com.I know that I promised an update here and now I can add one, I redeemed my points 3 weeks ago for a Ben and Jerry's certificate for a free pint of ice cream and I have now gotten it in the mail. So it took me three weeks to get that from them and I don't consider that to be too bad of a wait. The redemption process was very simple, they verified I did own the account by asking my password and then I selected how many points I wanted to redeem and then selected my price and verified my address. So overall that was a simple process. They say that it c...
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Weird Facts: Chinese Company Destroys $130 Million Plane With Caustic Chemi
2007-12-07 15:31:00
BEIJING weird facts (Reuters) - A Chinese state-run company has been ordered to pay a record $65 million in compensation, plus interest, for destroying a Malaysia Airlines plane with falsely declared cargo of caustic chemicals.The Airbus A330 was ruined when 80 canisters belonging to the Dalian branch of the China National Chemical Construction Corp. leaked an extremely corrosive chemical, oxalyl chloride, in the cargo hold in March 2000.The crew of the passenger flight from Beijing detected an acrid odor before landing in Kuala Lumpur en route to India and five ground handlers were taken ill when unloading the canisters to be sold to an Indian company.The passengers disembarked without incident, but the $130 million aircraft was so badly damaged that the manufacturer concluded that it could not be repaired.The Beijing Higher People's Court ruled Wednesday that the Dalian company should bear the main blame by declaring the canisters contained a safe chemical in the form of powder, ...
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Weird Facts: Santa Claus As Business
2007-12-04 13:03:00
weird factsMail By Santa is not a unique business idea, but it just proves a point that you don't have to be a genius to make money online.Children look for reasons to believe. This is what makes these letters from Santa Claus so magical. These letters remove any doubt if there really is a Santa Claus.The MailBySanta Letters are both personalized and addressed to a child. Imagine the thrill as a child receives a letter from Santa Clause addressed to them.Each letter is written to a child such as Dear Michael, mentions the achievements along with the names of their best friend, teachers and other information that comes from parents.The letters are fairly inexpensive, only $9.99 and the shipping is free, so clearly the profit margin has to be fairly big. The only downside is that Christmans is only once a year.And by the way, if you are into history of Santa Claus and Christmas, Here are some Christmas facts that will arouse your interest
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Weird Facts: Bank Tells Man He Owes $211 Trillion
2007-12-03 17:30:00
COBB COUNTY, weird facts Ga. -- It’s one thing to bounce a check and it’s another to be so far in the red Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Donald Trump combined couldn’t come close to bailing you out.A Cobb County man got a letter from his bank with that very shocking news.“And I open up the letter and I look at it and I’m like, ‘No, you’ve got to be kidding me,’ said Joe Martins.Martins said he recently closed an account at Wachovia Bank and made good on an outstanding check.He just got a letter about the closure and his negative balance -- $211,010,028,257,303.00. That’s $211 trillion.The letter includes the clarification, “no cents.”“I didn’t know what to think. Obviously $211 trillion is a little above what I put in my bank account,” said Martins.$211 trillion is more than 70 times the entire federal budget.Still, the letter said Wachovia was reporting him to an agency that rates risky bank customers.“I don’t own $211 trillion but because it is autom...
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