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Weird Facts: 10 Most Depressing Jobs
2007-10-17 19:43:00
This is really weird facts, folks. The US Department Of Health And Human Services released a report of what the most depressing jobs are. To be honest with you, I am not all that shocked. But next time I go to McDonalds, I'm thinking of giving a big hug to their depressed employees. Here is the list, anyway:1. Personal Care and Service 10.8%2. Food Preparation and Serving Related 10.3%3. Community and Social Services 9.6%4. Healthcare Practitioners and Technical 9.6%5. Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media 9.1%6. Education, Training, and Library 8.7%7. Office and Administrative Support 8.1%8. Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance 7.3%9. Financial 6.7%10. Sales and Related 6.7%[Source - Past Year Major Depressive Episode (MDE) among Full-Time Workers Aged 18 to 64, by Occupational Categories] More Weird Facts :Homeless man is chess king of Washington10 Million Dollar Ideas That Shouldn't Have Worked.
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Weird Facts: Cat Rescue Mission!
2007-10-16 10:39:00
Weird facts: How did he get there ?We are trying to release a kitten
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Weird Facts About Animals
2007-10-14 15:21:00
Weird facts about animalsPenguins can jump 6 feet in the air.A bear can run at speeds of up to 30 miles per hour (48 km/h).Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water.A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.The smallest bird in the world is the Humming Bird. It weighs less than 1 oz (or 1g).Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.Polar bears are left handed.A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur.Reindeer eat moss because it contains a chemical that stops their body from freezing.Snakes can see through their eyelids.A Woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.Woodpeckers don't get headaches from all that pecking. Their skulls have air pockets to cushion the brain.The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees.more weird facts soonTechnorati Profile
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10 Weird Facts About Einstein
2007-10-14 14:16:00
Weird Facts about a weird manAlbert Einstein in a famous 1951 photo by Arthur Sasse.Einstein Was a Fat Baby with Large HeadEinstein Had Speech Difficulty as a ChildEinstein was Inspired by a CompassEinstein Failed his University Entrance ExamEinstein had an Illegitimate ChildEinstein Became Estranged From His First Wife, then Proposed a Strange "Contract"Einstein Didn’t Get Along with His Oldest SonEinstein was a Ladies’ ManEinstein, the War Pacifist, Urged FDR to Build the Atom BombThe Saga of Einstein’s Brain: Pickled in a Jar for 43 Years and Driven Cross Country in a Trunk of a Buick!Here is a link to the article...Technorati Tags:entertainment|weird facts
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Strange Facts - Homeless man is chess king of Washington
2007-10-13 11:40:00
strange facts from washingtonStrange Facts from WASHINGTON (AFP) - He sleeps on a bench, but he is king of chess during the day at Washington 's Dupont Circle, where he dazzles beginners and masters alike with his winning moves on the park's stone chessboards.Tom Murphy, 49, makes what little money he has from teaching his prodigious knowledge of the game to passersby for a few dollars."He has the title of expert in chess. This is the second highest American title; above him are master. So it means he is quite good" said Washington's Chess Center director David Mehler.A former math and science major and a celebrity among amateurs, Murphy has made the Dupont Circle public square America's most prestigious chess park after New York's fabled Washington Square, according to some chess lovers."The mathematical equation has always been strange facts to me, then when you add the camaraderie, the ambiance, the open air, it's almost irresistible," said Murphy, peering over a park chessb...
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5 Strangest Things To Be Outsourced Weird Facts
2007-10-10 17:41:00
1. Lying And Cheating weird factsLooking to get away for a weekend fling without getting caught? A new French company provides would-be adulterers with custom-made excuses that help take the danger of discovery out of cheating. Founded six months ago by former private eye Regine Mourizard, Web-based Ibila can cook up invites to phony weekend seminars, fake emergency phone calls from work, invitations to nonexistent weddings - anything to justify cheating spouses' absence. [Full Story]2. Loading Music To Other People's iPods (http://www.hungrypod.com/)Catherine Keane, the owner of Hungry Pod, makes over $100,000 a year, uploading music to other people’s iPods. This online homebusiness idea came to her when an acquaintance offered her $500 to load his CD collection onto his iPod. Thanks in part to a small story in The New York Times, Keane's advertising efforts on Craigslist and word-of-mouth, HungryPod has expanded to three employees and four computers, and has annual sales that...
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Man faces 30 years for 52-cent doughnut theft - Weird Facts
2007-10-09 16:06:00
FARMINGTON, Mo. - It's a hefty price for a pastry: A man accused of stealing a 52-cent doughnut could face time in jail. weird factsAuthorities said Scott A. Masters, 41, slipped the doughnut into his sweat shirt without paying, then pushed away a clerk who tried to stop him as he fled the store.The push is being treated as minor assault, which transforms a misdemeanor shoplifting charge to a strong-armed robbery with a potential prison term of five to 15 years. Because he has a criminal history, prosecutors say they could seek 30 years."Strong-arm robbery? Over a doughnut? That's impossible," Masters told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from jail. He admitted that he took the pastry but denied touching the employee. "There's no way I would've pushed a woman over a doughnut."Farmington Police Chief Rick Baker said state law treats the shoplifting and assault as forcibly stealing property. The amount of force and value of the property doesn't matter."It's not the doughnut," Baker s...
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10 Weird Facts Startups You’ve Never Heard About
2007-10-08 19:11:00
http://www.newyourkey.com/ weird factsNew Yorkers who have a hard time keeping track of personal items now have one less thing to worry about. For a modest annual fee, NewYourKey keeps copies of keys in a secure storage facility and can deliver them right away if customers find themselves locked out. Keys lost in a nightclub at four in the morning? No problem! NewYourKey will deliver spare keys within an hour any time of day or night, wherever a customer happens to be.http://www.pickydomains.com/Can't think of that totally awesome domain name for a new website? PickyDomains is a risk-free domain naming service that got a lot of publicity and ‘blogtalk’ in Europe lately despite being only two months old. This is how it works. A customer deposits $50 dollars and describes what kind of domain he or she wants. Domain pickers then send in their suggestions of available domain names. If the customer likes one of the domain names and registers it, the service gets $50. Otherwise the m...
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Five Cool Things US Business Owners And Freelancers Get Free - weird facts
2007-10-08 14:00:00
1. Free business cardsWhat's the catch?weird facts - There are no catches. US printers are so overcompetitive, they are willing to give free business cards in hopes that you'll do more business with them later on. To be honest, the free designs not all that impressive, so printers conveniently offer you upgrade for $3 or something like that. I am sure that this is where they make their money.2. Free Stamps And PostageHey, it's only $25 worth of free stamps, but every little bit counts, right?3. Shawn Casey's Free Business In A BoxIf you are into internet marketing, you no doubt know who Shawn Casey is. I personally use this one - it's the best from the list, besides free business cards.4. Long Lost Sales LettersThis is another great one, if you are addicted to direct mail and direct response marketing, like I am. This is a big collection of old million dollar sales letters back from the 30s to the 80s. Pure marketing genius!5. The Million Dollar BookshelfThis site is basically ...
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'Gay bomb' wins Ig Nobel award - Weird Facts
2007-10-08 13:57:00
Weird Facts - The annual prizes, awarded by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research, were presented on Thursday evening at a ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the winners must try to explain their work in a minute or less.While some awards clearly poke fun at popular culture, others are meant to provoke debate about science, honouring achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think", according to the magazine. "These people really ought to have someone, somewhere, in some tiny way, give some kind of recognition that they have done something nobody has ever done," Annals editor Marc Abrahams said. The Ig Nobel Prizes, in their 17th year, were handed to the winners by genuine Nobel laureates Craig Mello (2006 Medicine), Dudley Herschbach (Chemistry 1986), Robert Laughlin (Physics 1998), William Lipscomb (1976 Chemistry) and Sheldon Glashow (1979 Physics). This year's winners include: "Chemistry" – Mayu Yamamoto of the International ...
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"Stupid In America" - How are This Weird Facts ?
2007-10-07 21:21:00
"Stupid in America " is a nasty title for a program about public education, but some weird facts are going on in America's public schools and it's about time we face up to it.Kids at New York's Abraham Lincoln High School told me their teachers are so dull students fall asleep in class. One student said, "You see kids all the time walking in the school smoking weed, you know. It's a normal thing here."We tried to bring "20/20" cameras into New York City schools to see for ourselves and show you what's going on in the schools, but officials wouldn't allow it.Washington, D.C., officials steered us to the best classrooms in their district.We wanted to tape typical classrooms but were turned down in state after state.Finally, school officials in Washington, D.C., allowed "20/20" to give cameras to a few students who were handpicked at two schools they'd handpicked. One was Woodrow Wilson High. Newsweek says it's one of the best schools in America. Yet what the students taped didn...
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Weird Facts: Look out iPhone, it’s the Google Phone!
2007-10-06 19:43:00
What’s better than a $399.00 iPhone ?How about a FREE Google Phone?Ain't that weird facts ? Imagine having a phone that didn’t cost you a dime and allowed you to not only talk, but search, email and browse the web… Sound too good to be true? Google has developed a prototype cell phone that will offer consumers free usage in exchange for viewing advertisements with its search engine, e-mail and Web browser software applications. How can Google offer up free phones?Advertising of course! It’s a mobile search device that will allow people to “google” anything from anywhere, so for such a drastic increase in traffic, why wouldn’t Google give the device away for free. It is Google’s tried and true business model after all. But how will it compete against the iPhone? This is a tough one. In order to compete with Apple, it has to have a stylish design, flawless and intuitive user interface, touch screen, camera, mp3 player… all the bells and whistles that you get for $39...
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Know More Media Announces the Five Millionth Visitor to its Weird Facts Blo
2007-10-05 16:45:00
Online business publisher Know More Media announces the five millionth visitor this week to its niche business blog network. Orange County, CA (PRWEB) February 22, 2007 -- Know More Media, an online publisher of business information and news, and one of the world's leading business blog networks, has announced that it welcomed its five millionth visitor to its network of niche business blogs on Feb 19, 2007. After launching its network in December 2005 and publishing its 38,000th article, or 'blog post,' by the end of January 2007, Know More Media has reached the five million-visitor mark only three months after welcoming its two millionth visitor to its network. "Reaching another traffic milestone so quickly is very rewarding to us," said Hal Halladay, CEO of Know More Media. "Since our launch, our network has experienced steady and robust traffic gr...
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Weird Facts: Cambridge Man Steals 123 Parking Meters
2007-10-05 16:22:00
Weird facts from BOSTON -- A Cambridge man was arrested and charged with stealing 123 parking meters from city streets.Thomas Gannon, 37, was arraigned in Cambridge District Court on Tuesday, WCVB-TV in Boston reported.Prosecutors said Gannon cut the tops off of the meters, leaving the posts behind."Over the past year, the city of Cambridge has suffered losses of approximately $100,000 due to the theft of parking meters," prosecutor Kate Cimini said.Police said they think Gannon might have stolen meters from other cities."The meters were damaged and the internal plastic coin cylinders were missing from most of them," Cimini said.Prosecutors said Gannon has a lengthy police record, including nine convictions and five defaults.Police found the parking meters in Gannon's home when they went to serve a warrant on him out of Malden, the television station reported.[Via WSBTV.Com]
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Ready to Explore the World? Then, Where on Earth are You?
2007-10-05 16:17:00
Sydney builder creates a clickable map of the world to provide an enjoyable way to discover interesting websites from every place on earth.Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) July 2, 2006 -- A Sydney builder has created a website to provide an enjoyable way to search and discover the world. The site, “Where on Earth R U?” will fill a map of the world with interesting websites from every place on earth. The idea began in January 2006 when Sydney project manager, Ed Jacka had a bit of time to browse the Internet. With nothing specific to search, he wanted to read the Internet like a magazine, pick it up, flick through and browse interesting websites to learn something new about the world. Ed realized there was just one problem, “the Internet has 85 million websites. Keyword searching is too “hit and miss” to be enjoyable for a casual magazine-style read. I developed “Where on earth R U” to collect all the interesting websites and display them on their piece of the world map.” ...
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