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TODAY IS: National Face Your Fears Day: confront and overcome the fears that hold you back

BIRTHDAYS

Kelly Preston -47
Paul Simon-68
Robert Lamm (Chicago)-65
Demond Wilson (Sanford and Son: Lamont)-63
Nancy Kerrigan-40
Sammy Hagar-62
Sacha Baron Cohen -38
Beverly Johnson-57
Ashanti-29
Marie Osmond-50

TODAY IN HISTORY

1775 Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet
1792 Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House)
1792 Old Farmer’s Almanac is first published.
1860 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston
1960 Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of their presidential campaign. (Nixon was in Los Angles; Kennedy was in New York.)
1963 “Beatlemania” is coined after the Beatles appear at the Palladium
1971 1st world series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3) (World Series #68)
1984 “I Just Called To Say I Love You” by Stevie Wonder peaks at No. 1.
1987 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
2000 Carlos Santana is presented with the key to Tijuana, Mexico.
2004 Sportscaster Al Michaels receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

HEAVY SLEEPER
Firefighters were called to a house fire in Pittsburgh. They fought th e blaze for 2 hours and were unable to get into the house because of a collapsed roof during the fire to evacuate anyone. After fighting the blaze for 2 hours and putting it out they did a walk through and were “flabbergasted” to find a man who’d slept through the entire incident inside the home.

PIE AUCTION
1,090,000 frozen fruit pies are up for auction on EBAY. The pies were originally set for delivery for a supermarket chain, but the order was canceled, so they were put up for bid on EBAY. Bidding reached $680 Monday with nearly nine days left in the eBay auction. “This is quite possibly the most bizarre and largest thing we have ever had to sell,” said Luke Schonenberger, e-commerce manager for Pressplay. “Most of us think it will make people laugh and it will be a 10-day auction and we’re hoping for a bit of a bidding frenzy.”

HYPNOTIC BUST
David Knight claims women can enlarge their bust by up to two cup sizes by undergoing hypnosis. Of course the British hypnosis entertainer wants you to buy his cd and he claims an 85% success rate based on customer feedback. He said: “Every lady’s breasts have been grown by the mind. The mind grows it, so the mind can enhance it. Fact.” He even offers a money back guarantee.

50 JOBS, 50 STATES
Daniel Seddiqui of Skokie, ILL. has finished his quest to work in every state in the union. He worked as a dietician, which he enjoyed because he was helping people. He says being a cheese maker was the toughest job. “Try bending over the vats, shoveling out 40 pounds of cheese for two hours straight,” he said. He worked at a Vegas chapel and din’t like it. “People were getting married for 50 bucks at the drive-through. They’d ask me what date it was — on their own wedding day,” he said.

THIS IS ART ?
The Turbine Hall art gallery in London has unveiled a new piece if “art.” It’s vast metal container containing no light whatsoever. In other words, darkness. All light vanishes as soon as visitors venture a few feet inside. Polish artist Miroslaw Balka, said the darkness in his creation is a metaphor for life. “Sometimes you meet a person who seems strange to you at first but then you get to know them and they become your friend,” he said. This is the same art gallery that a few years ago had a huge crack in the floor, which was built to illustrate how issues such as racism and poverty were causing fractures in society.

NO SMOKING AT WORK
A Canadian truck driver was given a ticket by a police officer who saw the 48-year-old trucker driving on a highway in south-western Ontario with a cigarette in his mouth. The Smoke-Free Ontario Act, adopted in 2006, prohibits smoking in an enclosed workplace or enclosed public area, and that extends to work vehicles. The fine is $305, Canadian.

HALLOWEEN MASKS
Michael Jackson and the Mario Brothers are among the top selling masks for Halloween thus far. As a side note one company says it’s already sold 15,000 Bernie Madoff masks. He’s the swindler serving 150 years for a gigantic Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of millions.

TOP 10 FEARS
Today is National Face Your Fears Day: Gallup Poll: What is your top fear?

1. Snakes – 51%

2. Speaking in public – 40%

3. Heights – 36%

4. Being closed in a small space – 34%

5. Spiders and insects – 27%

6. Needles and getting shots – 21%

7. Mice – 20%

8. Flying on a plane – 18%

9. Dogs (sorry, Lassie) – 11%

9. Thunder and lightning – 11%

9. Crowds – 11%

10. Going to the doctor – 9%

USELESS TRIVIA

The tongue is the fastest-healing part of the body.

It is rumored that Adolph Hitler was fascinated by hands and regularly consulted a book containing pictures and drawings of hands belonging to famous people throughout history.

Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia , Canada . In order to get to Point Roberts from any other part of the state, you have to go through Canadian and U. S. customs.

It is rumored Winston Church once said, “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.”

Eddie Arcaro won nearly 5,000 races to be ranked one of the greatest jockeys of all time, but, incredibly, he rode 250 losers before he won his first race.