Helpful Hints and Trivia

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In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

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Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.

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The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

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The Hoover Dam was built to last 2000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years

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1961 was the most recent year that could be written both upside-down and rightside-up and appear the same. The next year that this will be possible will be 6009.

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Got stale chips, cereal or crackers? Put them on a cookie sheet under the broiler in the oven for a few minutes. But don't brown them.

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TRAVEL GAME:

ANIMAL RUMMY

Give everybody a sheet of paper and a pencil. Have everybody write the same name, maybe somebody's name in the group, at the top of the paper. Each letter in the name heads a column.

The leader of the game calls, "Animal," and each player begins writing the names of animals in each column, matching the first letter of the animal name with the column letter. (For example, Elephant with an E would be written in the column E in the name Betty.)

After a set time limit, the leader collects the animal names and makes a master list. Players receive points of each animal they have listed, plus a bonus point for each animal not listed

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Did you know?

Everyone is familiar with the RCA logo with Nipper the dog listening to the RCA grammaphone. But the original picture had both the dog and the grammaphone sitting on his dead masters casket. The idea being that the closest thing to "his dead master's voice" was the RCA grammaphone. The ad was considered too morbid - so they removed the casket.

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Try this:

Food too salty or too sweet?

For soup or stew that's too salty, at cut raw potatoes and discard them once they have cooked and absorbed the salt. Or, add a teaspoon each of cider vinegar and sugar, or just sugar.

If food's too sweet, add salt, or a teaspoon of cider vinegar.

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