Nov 05, 2007 22:01
Many moons ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only... Ladies Forbidden"... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
Automobiles take up about 24% of the total area of Los Angeles.
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.
1 in 10 Americans has a public storage unit. In the last 15 years, the use of such units has tripled - while the size of homes has doubled - and the size of families has halved. {OPRAH}
85% of American women wear the wrong bra size.
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