Random Facts

• 550 Americans listed their occupation as "professional bagpipe player" on their 2007 income tax returns.


• It costs more to buy a new car today in the US than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to the New World


• The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.


• Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.


• The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C. (YUM)


• The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million. (What!?! I am in the wrong business)