Tuesday,
August 24, 2001
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I turned 48 yesterday and I and for some reason, I don't think it's taking. I'm wondering when I'm going to grow up. We were in Manassas, Virginia and saw these chairs at the side of the road. I really wanted to get one, but cooler heads prevailed. It's just as well, I suppose. |
| Why do we like ice cream?
We're biologically conditioned for it. In nature, bitter tasting things are generally poisonous or spoiled, while sweet things are the taste of carbohydrates, the body's fuel. . . . America's favorite flavors? 1) Vanilla 2) Chocolate 3) Neapolitan 4) Butter Pecan 5) Strawberry. . . . Who eats the most? 1) Omaha, Nebraska, 2) Portland, Oregon, 3) Baltimore, Maryland. Are we pigs, or what? The U.S. produced 1,620,902,000 gallons of ice cream in 2000, or 22.71 quarts per person. |
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Most shark
bites near U.S. shores happen in Florida, and Volusia County has
the highest number of attacks in the state. There have been 40 shark
attacks worldwide this year, 29 which have occurred in the U.S.; 22
of these have been in Florida.
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| Have you ever received a gift that came with bubble wrap and it was better than the gift itself? Now you can snap them all day long! Enjoy, as you pop virtual bubbles at snapbubbles.com. |
| Test your reflexes online (okay, so this is really dumb).http://www.reflexgame.com/ |
| Every now and then, you find a really neat website like SoYouWanna.com. This site teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught you in school. It's worth a look. http://www.soyouwanna.com/ |