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Ok, as I find out little tidbits of interesting, and maybe some not so interesting, quite possibly pointless information!!! But hey, that's me!!! Full of shit!!!! ;p
ITS
TRUE 
The odds against a person being struck by a meteorite or a
celestial stone are 10 trillion to one.��
Actor Keanu Reeve's first name means "cool breeze over
the mountains" in the Hawaiian language
The marmot squeals so loudly its voice carries more than 3km
One in 25 people suffers from asthma
In�625BC, metal coins were introduced in Greece. They replaced grain
- usually barley - as the medium of exchannge. Their main advantage was that they
did not get mouldy.
Roman emperor Nero's wife kept 500 asses so she could bate
in their milk
The most expensive coffee in the world is made from beans
picked from the droppings of an Asian animal called a luwak or toddy cat.
Italian Catholic bishops have publicly condemned
McDonald's hamburgers, claiming they reflect Protestantism.
A vasectomy is an illegal procedure in France
During an argument at a Maryland truck stop, an irate Fred Warren stuck a hunting knife into a tyre. The escaping air from the punctured tyre blew the knife back into Warren's throat and killed him.
NICE
ONE 
Dogs are the most destructive pets when it comes to electrical equipment, according to a survey of British insurance claims.� The damage reported included remote controls buried by dogs who mistook them for bones & a television wrecked by a Doberman excited by Match Of The Day.� The survey found pets destroy (AUS)$3 million worth of electrical equipment every year.
More than half of Britain's mobile phone owners aged 15 to 34 would rather sacrifice their home phone than give up their mobile, research showed.� Across all age groups, 38 % of mobile phone owners would do without their home phone if faced with a choice between the two.� The report revealed 59 % of British adults owned a mobile phone.
Traditional views of British as repressed lovers too timid
to try anything new in the bedroom are outdated, according to a survey
published recently.� The research shows that some Britons have been
indulging in internet sex, spanking, bondage and cross-dressing in efforts
to spice up their sex lives.� The survey of 850 adults found that 25%
of men and 15% of women claimed to have had internet sex, while 13% of men
and 5% of women admitted to having a fetish.
Sussex police dogs may be among the first in Britain to be
issued with special bullet-proof vests.� The vests, which are on loan
from a US company, are being trued out on five firearms support dogs with
the county force.� Police safety staff decided to try the vests on
Boss, Oban, Rodney, Razz & Ben after noticing them in a catalogue
advertising vests for people.� Pete Sims, a dog unit co-ordinator,
said: "The vests clearly don't cover the entire dog but they protect
his vital organs, liver, kidneys and heart.� It improves the dog's
chances of survival by 80%
Most Britons abroad get homesick for soccer scores, cups
of tea and TV soaps, a survey has found.� Two-thirds of men miss
soccer, more than half miss a traditional fry-up and 43% pine for their
local pub.� Most woman miss the TV soaps, cups of tea and milk and
chocolate.� Some 46% also miss their mum.
A US trucker who lost control of his lorry when he dropped
a can of soft drink ended ip spilling a drum of yellow paint onto the
road.� Michael Giberson took his eye off the can he had dropped in his
cab.� He hit the roadside guardrail and the drum of paint, used for
yellow lines, crashed on to the road in Bath, Maine.
A restaurant owner is moaning after the Swedish king Carl Gustaf only left a tip worth just over (AUS)$1.� Bernard Duijn, who owns a Thai restaurant in St. Tropez, France, worked extremely hard during the evening.� King Gustaf spent about (AUS)$1000 on the meal with Crown Princess Victoria and three friends. Duijn returned the tip when he saw the amount
In Tillit is a pub called "The Cockwell Inn".
The publican there is a lady called Lucy Likes. So her address is:
Miss Lucy Likes
The Cockwell Inn
Tillit
Herts.
A pet snake survived for a ear in an empty house in
Belgium after being left behind by mistake when the owner moved.�
Police in Antwerp discovered the Californian king boa after being alerted by
pedestrians, who saw it resting behind the window in the sun.� The
snake was caught with the help of zoo staff and found to be in good
condition.� It had survived by catching rats, mice and insects.
The dog-loving leader of a right-wing party in Romania
says he will adopt some 70,000 stray dogs plaguing Bucharest. Corneliu Vadim
Tudor plans to build a refuge for the strays on 20,000sq/m of land outside
the city that had been given to him by "a rich man". "I love
dogs". In my house I have 17," he said. The dogs were blamed for
20,000 attacks last year and the city has begun to cull them despite
protests from animal protection groups.
Britain's cat lovers have been queuing up to give the
country's most unfortunate feline a good home.� For four months,
three-year-old Felix, who has no ears and only one eye because of illness
and accidents, languished in an RSPCA animal centre as others were chosen
ahead of him.� Then the charity put out an appeal for someone to give
him a home. "We usually get around 40 calls a day, but so far today we
have had 170 telephone calls about Felix," said Andy MacMillian, deputy
manager of the William and Patricia Venton Animal Centre at St. Columb,
Cornwall.
Security staff at Disneyland Paris are demanding help to
stop attacks on Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.� Thugs are attacking the
famous pair and other characters like Winnie the Pooh and Pluto. Staff at
the theme park have staged a strike to drive the point home. Mickey Mouse
has had his ears torn off and Minnie Mouse has lost her dress as the
culprits, believed to be mainly teenage boys, try to steal the costumes.
Maritime police in Belgium had to save a cyclist after he
jumped into a dock to cool off in the hot weather.� The Antwerp man
decided to take the plunge as he returned from work in temperatures of
almost 30C. Officers later found the man clinging, shivering, to the
propeller of a ship after he found he could not climb out of the dock, He
turned to the anchored vessel in desperation after discovering there were no
stairs out of the water and the walls were too high to climb. Police took
the man to hospital.
A baker is putting the finishing touches to one of the biggest wedding cakes in Britain. The cake, produced at the Thornhill Bakery in Cambridgeshire, stands more than 13 tiers high and cost more than (AUS)$3000. Anne Thornhill, co-owner of the bakery, said the cake took about two months to create. She said: "It's certainly the biggest we've done - there's enough to feed 400 people. We've checked to see if it's a record, but apparently it's a couple of tiers short of being the biggest in Britain.
WHAT�
IN THE WEIRD
Crooks a load of rubbish
Five robbers held up a Spanish supermarket in Murcia, making off with two bags full of rubbish.� The crooks stile in through a service entrance at the back of the Carrefour supermarket. After gaining access to the building they fired a shot in the air and struck a security guard before escaping in a stolen van with two bags of rubbish the mistook for the takings.�
Taking the lord in vain
A homeless woman has been arrested and charged with stealing a life-size crucifix from a Los Angeles church.� She apparently hoped that the figure of Jesus on the cross would protect her.� Teri Denise Staff, 44, was arrested in San Bernardino, 96km east of Los Angeles.� She was charged with burglary, grand theft and vandalism.� Police had been searching for the 1.8m, 42kg crucifix from St James the Less Catholic Church in the Los Angeles suburb of La Crescenta since before Easter.� A chaplain at the St Mary Regional Medical Centre in San Bernardino found the crucifix - with both hands broken off - in his office.� Written on the statue were the words: "I took the scriptures literally - 'If God is with you, who can be against you?'."
Military discipline for schools
Head teachers who cannot find supply teachers to fill vacancies in their schools have advertised for former military personnel to watch over classes.� The City of Portsmouth Boys' school is one of the four schools in southern England to advertise in their local newspapers for "those who have worked in schools, the forces of youth work" to fill posts as classroom supervisors.� But the National Union of Teachers warned schools were treading on dangerous ground if unqualified people were used as substitutes for supply teachers.
Angling for big trouble
Two Canadian anglers were taken to hospital after their canoe capsized as they reeled in a giant trout. The me were fishing on Glenmore reservoir in Calgary when they hooked a 5-7kg trout. Their canoe flipped over in the struggle and the fish got away. They were wearing life jackets, but both men suffered from hypothermia after falling into the freezing cold water.
Cops sniffy about cocaine
Police in Venezuela are getting sick by breathing in particles from piles of seized cocaine stored in their offices. Detectives are missing work and complaining of breathing difficulties at their headquarters in Caracas. The cocaine has been mounting since July 1999, when new guidelines caused confusion about who was responsible for getting rid of confiscated drugs. Cristina Zoghbi, head of the toxicology division, is demanding the authorities incinerate 600kg of cocaine stored in plastic bags on her office floor and a bathroom.
Cooking the homebuyers' goose
A man selling his house in Norfolk, England, has turned away four prospective buyers because they won't take on the sitting tenant - Lucy the goose. Frank Aspey put his 17th-century house in Acle up for sale for more than %500,000. But the estate agents make it clear that anyone buying the house must take on Lucy as well. The real estate brochure reads: "The vendor of this property requests that the future purchaser will take on the responsibility of Lucy the goose to remain in the grounds." Lucy has lived at the house since 1993 and was a favourite with Aspey's father Major Bill Aspey, so much so she was even mentioned in his obituary in British newspaper the Daily Telegraph.