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TODAY IS :
Leif Erikson Day: Pay tribute to the first European explorer, Leif Erikson, to reach the North American continent.

BIRTHDAYS

Fyvush Finkel (Boston Public: Harvey)-87
John O’Hurley-55
Annika Sorenstam (Golfer)-39
Jackson Browne-61
Robert Wuhl -58
Sean Lennon-34
Sharon Osbourne-57
Tony Shalhoub (Monk)-56
Zachery Ty Bryan (Home Improvement)-28
Scott Bakula-55

TODAY IN HISTORY

1000 Leif Ericson discovers “Vinland” (possibly New England)
1872 Aaron Montgomery Ward begins the first mail-order catalog.
1946 1st electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
1965 Beatles’ “Yesterday,” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1969 Supremes release “Someday We’ll Be Together”
1976 “A Fifth of Beethoven” by Walter Murphy # 1.
1980 John Lennon celebrates his 40th birthday with the release of the single “(Just Like) Starting Over.”
1984 Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space
1985 Yoko Ono dedicates “Strawberry Fields” in New York’s Central Park to the memory of John Lennon.
1990 Radio stations around the world play “Imagine” honoring John Lennon
1992 “A River Runs Through It” opens in theaters.
2003 The new peach-hued $20 bill is introduced.

NO REALLY IT’S A ZEBRA
The Marah Land zoo in Gaza couldn’t afford to bring in real zebras from Africa through the smuggling tunnels of the isolated Palestinian conclave. So the owner did what any entrepeneur who do. Improvised ! he used masking tape and black hair dye, applied with a paint-brush, to disguise the white females. He painted the donkeys. “The first time we used paint but it didn’t look good,” said Mr Bargouthi. “The children don’t know, so they call them zebras and they are happy to see something new.”

KRISPY KREME BURGER
A cheeseburger served on Krispy Kreme doughnuts has gone on sale in America, packing a massive 1,500-calories. The glazed Krispy Kreme beef, bacon and cheese burger has already proved a huge hit at the Big E fair in Massachusetts where 17,000 of them have been eaten.

FLU SUIT
Scientists in Japan have created a business suit which they claim can help fight off flu at the office. The $800 suit is made from special fibres which have been treated with titanium dioxide which is claimed to break down bacteria and fights infections on reaction with light. It was designed to ward off the spreading A H1N1 swine flu virus.

BEING GOOD IS GOOD
A Virginia college student reaped a $10,000 reward Thursday when he returned a 15-carat diamond ring he found in a parking lot to its rightful owner. Jeremy McIntosh told The Virginian-Pilot he found the $96,000 ring in September outside a dry cleaner where he works. He thought it was a fake until he saw a story about in the Norfolk paper. It belonged to James Ramsey who gave Jeremy the reward.

PERFUME FOR TOOLS
3 men were caught on surveillance tape breaking in and stealing $100,000 in Chanel #5. The same 3 men were then seen at a tool suuply store’s surrveillance camera buying ex[ensive tools they apparently needed. Now the cops are looking for the guys and a stash of perfume.

YUMMY GUMMY
A designer has started creating home decorations including a four foot tall chandelier… made from hundreds of gummy bear sweets. The items, are made by Ya Ya Chou, and also include a bear-skin shaped rug – are made by threading the gummy bears together to make the desired shapes. They are meant to explore the relationship between food consumption and class. They are expected to last 10 years.

On THE BIBLE IN LEGO
Bricktestament.com/Bricktestament.com is a website where you can see the bible in Lego. The Brick Testament features more than 4,500 illustrations, depicting more than 400 Bible tales from Genesis to Revelations.

USELESS TRIVIA

It was rumored that Catherine the Great of Russia relaxed by being tickled.

The moon weighs about 81 billion tons and orbits Earth every 27.32 days.

When the Apollo 12 astronauts landed on the moon, the impact caused the moon’s surface to vibrate for 55 minutes. The vibrations were picked up by laboratory instruments, leading geologists to theorize that the moon’s surface is composed of fragile layers of rock.

American physicist John Wheeler coined the term “black hole” in 1967; before this the phenomena were known as “frozen stars.”

The coldest place in the known universe is the Boomerang Nebula, about 5,000 light-years away.

The Pacific Carol ine Islands has a place named U, and a peak in Hong Kong is called A.

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