Weak-ipedia: All we know about Nemanja Jovanović is that he’s a Serbian football player.
Five percent of lottery ticket buyers buy 51% of all tickets sold.
I wonder if 75,000 new blogs are still being created each day.
Since hitting the air on April 19, 1987, Matt Groening’s cartoon family, The Simpsons, has brought in [...]
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It’s been revealed that some of our astronauts have been drunk-flying. The outrage! I tried to voice my disgust by calling NASA and this is what I heard.
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One of my radio listeners heard us talking about Oscar, the cat that can predict when a patient at a Providence, Rhode Island, nursing home is about to die. Here’s her email:
We must tell you about a cat named “George”. He resided in the Nursing Home in Farmer City (Illinois). I guess our [...]
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Oscar the cat lives at a nursing/rehab center in Providence, Rhode Island. Six months after being adopted by the center, the staff noticed something amazing: Oscar was predicting when patients were about to die. It sounds a bit creepy, but Oscar has turned out to be a blessing for families of the dying.
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Reuters recently reported that a team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore examined 20 studies published in journals and looked at national surveys of weight and behavior for their analysis. The conclusion: If the rate of obesity and overweight continues at it current pace, by 2015, 75 percent of adults and nearly 24 percent of [...]
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I don’t know where you live, but here in Champaign, Illinois, we’re entering what’s promising to be one of the most beautiful weekends we’ll ever see. Sun all weekend and highs in the upper 70s and lower 80s. Aaah.
As I type, I’m sitting in my back yard and a yellow plane has just flown over. [...]
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The New York Times and the Baltimore Sun have published reviews of the final Harry Potter book, and author J.K. Rowling is not happy. Even though neither paper gave up big spoilers, or revealed the ending, Rowling released this statement: “I am staggered that some American newspapers have decided to publish purported spoilers in the [...]
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Say hi to Brad from Paxton, Illinois. His copy of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” arrived Wednesday — three days early. Brad ordered from DeepDiscount.com.
Brad’s not the only one to receive “Deathly Hallows” early, and Scholastic is, of course, freaking out over DeepDiscount’s screw-up, real or accidental. If I were DeepDiscount I’d have sent [...]
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Kind of a thrill. I just received a reply to an email I sent to Craig Johnson, author of “The Cold Dish”. After reading this debut novel, I felt compelled to email Johnson to say thanks for one great read. “Dish” has a simple but compelling plot and a cast of really interesting characters. [...]
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SPAM — the edible kind — turns 70 today. Some SPAM trivia found on Wikipedia and a few other places…
* Introduced on July 5, 1937, the name “Spam” was chosen in the 1930s when the product, whose original name was far less memorable (Hormel Spiced Ham), began to lose market share. The name was chosen [...]
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