Some Good Quotes and an Interesting Fact Or Two

We’re moving Jen into a new apartment this morning so I imagine that we’ll be busy with that over the weekend. Probably won’t do much “computing”.

But just so you know my little brain is still plugging away, here are some interesting factoids from Reference.com that I dug up. They have nothing to do with each other – they’re just interesting, I think.

It takes 3650 peanuts to fill a 5-pound container of peanut butter. Half of all edible peanuts consumed in the US are used to make peanut butter.

On February 22, 1980 at the XIII Olympic Winter Games, the United States Olympic hockey team beat the defending champion Soviet hockey team 4-3 in an incredible upset victory that became known as “The Miracle on Ice”. They went on to defeat Finland for the gold medal.

And a couple of good Dave Barry quotes about the great outdoors:

“Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business.” (My sentiments, exactly)

“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”

“The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.”

So there you have it – my blogpost for the day!

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