Did You Know? – August 2010

In Moscow, Ohio, a man bulldozed his $350,000 home on February, 2010, when a bank claimed it as collateral for an outstanding debt?

Singleton, New Australia, has both an annual wife-carrying and a husband-dragging competition?

Maddie and Neal Love bought the entire town of Wauconda, WA. for $360,000?

Nearly 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns?

In 2010, residents of Key West, Florida used 1,080 key limes to prepare a 450-pound, 7-foot in diameter,  key lime pie?

In 1985, a pregnant woman was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball?

Slugs have four noses?

Ohio state law forbids getting a fish drunk?

St. John was the only one of the apostles to die a natural death?

Pogonphobia is the fear of beards?

The opposite sides of a dice always add up to seven?

The study of stupidity is called monology?

‘Nobody talks as constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.’
- Heywood Broun

‘Stress is an ignorant state.  It believes that everything is an emergency.  Nothing is that important.’
-Teresa Gonzales

‘When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.’
-Shirley Mooney

‘The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves, but wise people are so full of doubts.’
-Becki Harvey