Did You Know?

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God, I was going to vote for Herman Cain and he got bounced, so I switched to Rick Perry, but we found out he's done, so I switched to Bachman, and now she quit, so I was going to go to Newt, but he had a disappointing finish in Iowa. So, I thought about Santorium but there was footage...ah forget it!

Did you know that Hitler was Time Magazine's Man of the Year for 1938?

Did you know that Oprah makes a million bucks a day?

Did you know that your chances of getting killed on your way to buy a lottery ticket are actually better than your chances of winning?

Did you know that Americans spend 25 billion dollars a year on beer?

Which might explain...did you know that the amount of human urine in one day could flow over Niagara Falls for 20 minutes?

Did you know that if a cockroach comes into contact with a human it will run off and hide and clean itself for an hour or so?

Did you know that it's cheaper to have sex with a prostitute than it is to buy a condom in India?

Did you know that Bin Laden's death was announced on May 1 and Hitler's death was also announced on May 1? 2011 and 1945 respectively.

Did you know that in 1897 Bayer marketed heroin as a cough syrup?

Did you know that a married man is 4 times more likely to die during sex if his partner is someone other than his wife?

Did you know that the mobile phone you carry has a more powerful computer than the one NASA used to send men to the moon in 1969?

See the shit you learn reading this goofy blog?

Is any of it true?

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Carrie Lynn Fazzolari said…
What's the name of the new book you got for Christmas??? Hmmmm...?
06 January, 2012
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