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FROM ISSUE # 153 (September 2008) | IN THIS ISSUE
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One million cloud droplets are needed to make enough water to produce one raindrop.

In 1985, a pregnant woman was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball.

Coffee beans were chewed for more than 400 years before the first cup of coffee was brewed.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.

A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is has been decapitated.

A man filed a lawsuit against his doctor because he survived longer than what the doctor had predicted.

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.

Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China.

Queen Elizabeth II was Time Magazine's "Man of The Year" in 1952.

A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
Cleopatra actually married two of her brothers.