Interesting Facts to Waste Time
Any month that has a Friday the 13th also has a Wednesday the 25th.
John Madden is an accomplished ballroom dancer.
In 21 states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.
Jim Gordon, drummer of Derek and the Dominos (”Layla”), killed his mother with a claw hammer.
One of Hewlett Packard’s first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.
Eric Clapton did not play the very famous first riff on the song “Layla”. That was Duane Allman. Clapton comes in later.
As you age, your eye color gets lighter.
There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
Illinois has the most personalized license plates of any state.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
2008 Presidential Candidates find true calling
As far as I can tell, the candidates seem to be weighing more on the side of success doing remakes of rock and roll classics.
Hat tip: Simply Dumb
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Are you in danger of death by caffeine?
How much of your favorite energy drink, soda, or caffeinated food would it take to kill you? Take this quick test and find out.
According to this handy little tool, I’d have to drink 107 cups of coffee. I think I’m safe - barely!
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Talk About Being Positive…
I saw a little something on a message board… It really put things in perspective!
I believe I will make this my own personal thought for the day for many days to come…
No matter if I only have $5 in the bank, I STILL have more money than the U.S. 
*smiles*
From September 5th, 2004
It’s just a Pop tart…
** whew - I was able to save my valuable, award winning post **
That’s what my husband said when I became just a bit irritated at finding my box of 8 Pop tarts contained only seven.
Yesterday morning was like any other day, rushing around trying to beat the horn of the bus honking out front. My kids on a mad search through the shoe pile for their own matching pair, tucking their books into their backpacks and here I stand in the kitchen opening up a box of Pop tarts as I prepared one of those all American – not so nutritious breakfasts of Pop tarts and milk.
As I pulled the packet from the box I shook it slightly immediately sensing it was lighter and thinner than the previous pack. [Insert Twilight Zone tune here]. I pointed out the finding to my husband and stated I was going to take the pack back to the store. He gasped not believing what I had just said. “It’s just a Pop tart,” he chuckled.
Well, ya know, he is partially right. But having worked in retail and being the true “cancer female” I am, I had to dig WAY deeper to find the bigger errrr biggest possible picture.
I did just a quick bit of simple math just to show my husband and the rest of the world what a difference one little Pop tart can make.
Let’s say this company decided to try to save money/make money in ways that the consumer would likely overlook as a “fluke” and think nothing further of it, all while they cushion their pockets and thicken the bottom line just a bit more.
I took a very conservative number of 500,000! If 500,000 boxes of Pop tarts were shorted just one tart, that would leave an extra 500,000 tarts, correct? Now those 500,000 extra tarts can be packaged in an extra 62,500 new boxes. You follow? Now back in my retail days, the average markup for the chain I worked for was around 33%. If those tarts retail for $3.99 then Quaker is making $2.67 off each box that sales. Last we take that $2.67 and multiply it by the number of extra boxes to reveal a whopping $166,875 profit off of Pop tarts that have been purchased twice by consumers.
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