Vol. 15 Issue 20
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COMPLETELY USELESS FACTS
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The largest snowflake ever recorded reportedly measured 15 inches across
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For every human on Earth
there are 1.6 million ants. If
you weighed them, all the ants
would weigh about the same as
all the humans
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A pineapple is just a bunch of berries
fused into a single mass.
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All major league baseball umpires
must wear black underwear while on the job in case
their pants split
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The main library at Indiana University sinks over an
inch a year. When it was designed engineers failed to take into account the
weight of all the books that
would occupy the building.
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When
opossums
are
"playing 'possum," they
are not playing. They
actually pass out from
sheer terror
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The dog “Toto” was paid
$125 per week while filming The Wizard of Oz
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FORGIVENESS DOES NOT MEAN EXCUSING - C.S. LEWIS
I GOT TIRED OF LOOKING AT ALL THE WEEDS IN MY LAWN SO I GOT UP AND CLOSED THE
99% OF THE LAWYERS GIVE THE REST A BAD NAME
CURTAINS
HOMEMAKING IS THE ULTIMATE CAREER. ALL OTHER CAREERS EXIST FOR ONE PURPOSE ONLY - TO SUPPORT THE ULTIMATE CAREER
SINCE IT IS SO LIKELY THAT CHILDREN WILLMEET CRUEL ENEMIES, LET THAT AT LEAST HAVE HEARD OF BRAVE KNIGHTS AND HEROIC COURAGE
JOY IS THE SERIOUS BUSINESS OF HEAVEN - C. S. LEWIS
* On May 22, 1859, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of master
sleuth Sherlock Holmes, is
born in Scotland. He studied
medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he met Dr. Joseph Bell, who helped inspire
Doyle's Sherlock Holmes character years later.
* On May 26, 1907, John Wayne, an Oscar-winning actor
who came to epitomize the American West, is born
in Winterset, Iowa. His career started with a job
as an assistant prop man on a movie set.
* On May 23, 1934, notorious criminals
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are
shot to death in an ambush by Texas and
Louisiana state police while driving a stolen car near Sailes, Louisiana. The Barrow
Gang is believed to have killed at least nine police officers.
AIM AT HEAVEN AND YOU WILL GET EARTH THROWN IN. AIM AT EARTH AND YOU GET NEITHER
* On May 27, 1943, a B-24 carrying
U.S. airman and former Olympic
runner Louis "Louie" Zamperini
crashes into the Pacific Ocean.
Zamperini floated on a raft in sharkinfested waters for more than a
month before being picked up by
the Japanese and spending the next two
years in brutal prison camps.
* On May 25, 1977, China's communist government lifts its
decade-old ban on the writings of William Shakespeare,
providing further evidence that the Cultural Revolution was
over.
* On May 28, 1987, Matthias Rust, a 19-year-old amateur
pilot from West Germany, takes off from Helsinki, Finland,
travels through more than 400 miles of Soviet airspace, and
lands his small Cessna aircraft in Red Square by the Kremlin. The event proved to be an immense embarrassment to
the Soviet government and military.
* On May 24, 1991, the critically acclaimed road movie
"Thelma and Louise" debuts in theaters,
stunning audiences with a climactic
scene in which its two heroines
drive off a cliff in a vintage 1966
Ford Thunderbird convertible.
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I'VE NEVER MADE AN "EASY PAYMENT."
FRIENDSHIP IS BORN AT THAT MOMENT WHEN ONE PERSON SAYS TO ANOTHER: WHAT! YOU TOO? I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE.
IT'S OKAY TO HAVE NOTHING TO SAY ... UNLESS YOU'RE TALKING
THE TERRIBLE THING, THE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE THING, IS TO HAND OVER YOUR WHOLE SELF--ALL YOUR WISHES AND PRECAUTIONS--TO CHRIST
THOUGHTS OF OSWALD CHAMBERS
 “We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to
be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing
else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do
anything at all.
 The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear
God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear
God, you fear everything else
 Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He
will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you who He is
 A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow
in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the
saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every
now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching
till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly
 If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants
insight into what Jesus
Christ teaches, he can
only get it by obedience.”
 Get into the habit of
saying, ‘Speak, Lord,’
and then be quiet.
MANKIND FEARS AN EVIL MAN BUT HEAVEN DOES NOT
IT IS SAFE TO TELL THE PURE IN HEART THAT THEY SHALL SEE GOD, FOR ONLY THE PURE IN HEART WANT TO
THERE ARE FAR, FAR BETTER THINGS AHEAD THAN ANY WE LEAVE BEHIND
THERE IS NO PEACE AND HAPPINESS APART FROM GOD
IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED, REDEFINE SUCCESS
“IF A MAN'S SELF IS NOT KEPT CLEAN AND BRIGHT, HIS GLIMPSE OF GOD WILL BE BLURRED.” CLEAN THE LENSES OF YOUR HEART.
THE ONLY SUBSTITUE FOR GOOD MANERS IS FAST REFLEXES
THESE DAYS ABOUT HALF THE STUFF IN MY SHOPPING CART SAYS, “FOR FAST RELIEF’