Useless Fact of the Week

10/28/01-
Dairy cows can produce up to 125 lbs of saliva a day.

10/14/01-
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off

10/7/01-
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

9/30/01-
Women shoplift more often than men; the statistics are 4 to 1.

9/16/01-
There were 104 elevators in each of the World Trade Center Towers.

9/9/01-
A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.

9/2/01-
Everyday more Monopoly money is printed than US currency.

8/28/01-
Ants can live up to 16 years.

8/19/01-
97% of all paper money in the U.S. contain traces of cocaine

Quote of the Week-

10/28/01-
"Permitted vehicles not allowed."
- Road sign on US 27

10/14/01-
" I am old fashioned.I like to engage my brain before I engage my mouth."
-Defense Sec. Rumsfeld in response to newsreporters comments on the delay of his response.

10/7/01-
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln

9/30/01-
"I am not going to fire a $2 million missle at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the ass."
President Bush on war strategy

9/16/01-
"I can hear you; the rest of the world hears you; and soon the people that knocked down these buildings will hear all of us."
-President George W. Bush, Jr. during his visit to ground zero.

9/11/01-
"In the city of God there will be a great thunder, two big brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb. The third big war will begin when the city is burning"
- Nostradamus 1654

9/9/01-
"Two grand slams in a week - man, that's seven or eight ribbies right there."
- Bill Madlock, Baseball broadcaster

9/2/01-
These people haven't seen the last of my face. If I go down, I'm going down standing up."
- Chuck Person, NBA Basketball player

8/28/01-
I deny the allegations and I defy the alligators!"
- Indicted Chicago Alderman

8/19/01-
"Solutions are not the answer."
- Richard Nixon, former U.S. President

Riddle of the Week

10/28/01-
Little Johnny buys 10 trees at a local nursery. How does he plant these 10 trees in 5 rows with 4 in each row?

10/14/01-
How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?

There is no dirt in a hole, duh

10/7/01-
While walking through a forest a man finds a cabin with several dead people in it. How did these people die?

They died in a plane crash (cabin of a plane)

9/30/01-
Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?

Three. Half of two is one. Then add two, and the answer is three.

9/16/01-
A bottle and cork cost $1.10 together. The bottle costs $1 more than the cork cost.How much does the cork cost?

5 cents

9/9/01-
A man's body is found 1,000 feet below sea level, yet the cause of his death is not drowning. How and where did this man die?

He died of a heat stroke in Death Valley.

9/2/01-
There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?

incorrectly

8/28/01-
How would you rearrange the letters in the words new door to make one word? Note: There is only one correct answer.

one word, duh!

8/19/01-
What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?

A keyboard

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