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Every wonder why athletic shoes are often called ‘sneakers’?

Posted on July 27, 2019

These days it seems like there’s an athletic shoe made for virtually every kind of physical activity.

For example, we have “tennis shoes”. We have “runners”. We have “walkers”. And we even have “dancers”.

Well, for many years we’ve also had “sneakers”!

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Fun with math: 17 horses, a pony and a will.

Posted on May 22, 2019

Here’s a fun math trick that my dad taught me when I was a little boy…

Farmer Brown had seventeen horses on his rural farm.

In his will he instructed that upon his death the horses should be distributed to his sons as follows: [Read more…]

You can get five $2 bills for only 20 bucks! Is that a great deal, or what?

Posted on May 21, 2019

The Internet has made it possible for folks to sell virtually anything you can think of, including some things that can actually be had for free!

There are also things being sold online for prices that greatly exceed their true worth.

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The odds of getting struck by lightning are greater than winning the lottery, but these guys won several times each!

Posted on March 13, 2019

Do you play the lottery on a regular basis?

If so, you should (and probably do) know that your odds of winning the jackpot are very poor.

In fact, your odds of getting struck by lightning (1 in 700,000) are actually double your odds of picking the winning numbers for a lottery drawing (1 in 13,983,816)!

Pretty shocking, right? (Please pardon the awful pun!)

[Read more…]

Millions of Americans believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows. And yes, I am serious.

Posted on March 2, 2019

Here’s a fun fact for you:  7% of our fellow Americans believe we get chocolate milk by milking brown cows.

We know this thanks to a survey sponsored by the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy.

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