Just In Case You Were Wondering ..........

From: Sylvia Sefton

<> Old paper money is no longer burned by the United States Government.
To avoid pollution, it is pulverized.

<> A Chinese Mother and Father, farmers in Fukien Province, became
parents of a normal baby boy on January 8, 1910.  The Mother was 8 years
old and the Father was 9.  And if that doesn't phase you, try this .....
...  Akkiri of Calabar, Africa was married to a lovely lass named Mum-Zi.
She had a daughter when she was 8 years and 4 months old.  The daughter
, in turn became the Mother of a baby at the age of 8, making Mum-Zi a
Grandmother at the age of 17.

<> Bill Egley, on December 9, 1842, designed and offered for sale in
England what is now regarded as the first Christmas card created for
mass circulation.  It is preserved in the British Museum.

<> There are only two words in the English language that spell the same
object both forward and backward.  They are "race car."

<> A frogs eye won't register anything that doesn't move.

<> The hot fudge sundae was first dreamed up in Hollywood in 1906.

<> Nobody ever wrote a biography of Chester A. Arthur, the twenty-first
President of the United States.

<> In 1890, a New England woman used baking soda instead of cream of
tartar while making peanut taffy.  Her mistake became known as peanut
brittle.

<> The highest gross income ever reached in a single year by a private
citizen is the estimated $105 million made in 1927 by Chicago gangster
Al Capone.  At the time, Capone's business card listed him as a "Second
Hand Furniture Dealer."

<> Tens of thousands of Americans saw grapefruit for the first time at
the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893.

<> In the 17th century in England, only Ministers, Physicians, Lawyers
and successful Merchants, were entitled to call themselves "Mr." and
their wives "Mrs."