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Monday, May 02, 2005

facts

If you are keeping a list of facts, add these:

There is no such thing as an unsinkable ship.

Everybody snores.

The best thing you can do to keep Social Security healthy is to die. If we all live to be a hundred, Social Security will go broke, and we will all have to join the same retirement system as members of Congress.

Since gasoline prices passed $2 a gallon, sales of motor scooters are way up and sales of SUV's are way down.

The number one weather problem in Juneau, Alaska is rain, not snow.

Small town America had a better public transportation system in 1950 than it does now.

Great Salt Lake used to be much larger, and it was fresh water with an outlet to the north. Now the water can only get out by evaporation. That's why it's salty.

Cushman made Eagles for 16 years. (1949-1965) A few left-overs were called 1966 models but they were manufactured the previous year.

Tucker built only 50 cars. Another was assembled from spare parts for a total of 51.

Eisenhower signed the bill that created the Interstate and Defense Highway system.
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