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The answer is to apply Ben Gay directly to the eyeballs. What this is the answer to is not known.

In the middle of "Face Down" there a sound that's identical to our basement door being opened. I pause the song everytime I hear it (even though I know better) to see who's coming down.
Likewise, the song "Change" has a sound almost exactly the sound of someone hitting two computer keys too hard.

I grind my teeth.

I like to eat, and it shows.

I like to eat as well, and there's nothing good to eat here.

LOL, Bizarre! My cat Prince takes up my entire pillow. I need two pillows.

There are more stars than grains of sand on any beach on this world.

A 15-pound turkey typically has about 70 percent white meat and 30 percent dark meat.

According to a study at the University of Florida, the average US male can expect to earn $789 per year, per inch of height.

The duck-billed platypus is the world's only poisonous mammal.

From 1932 to 1972, the US Public Health Service conducted medical research on rural black sharecroppers at the Tuskeegee Institute in Alabama. The researchers identified 399 male syphillis patients, then treated whtm with placebos in order to monitor the progress of the disease. By the end of the study, 128 of the test subjects had died from syphillis or its complications. 40 of the test subjects' wives had been infected, and 19 of their children had been born with congenital syphillis. The project was suspended after its existence was leaked to the press.

The kilogram is the only SI unit of measurement that is not calibrated to a physical constant.

On the Richter Scale, a zero reading is calibrated on the smallest earthquake that could be detected on a Wood-Anderson torsion seismometer in 1935, if the machine had been 100km from the epicenter of the quake. Additionally, the scale is logarhythmic by ten. (That is, a Magnitude 1 quake is ten times stonger than a Magnitude 0, and Magnitude 2 quake is ten times stronger than a Magnitude 1. Etc.)

LOL! Prince would like that, too. He sits on a pile of towels in the linen closet. I call him "The Prince on the Pea."

Despite the strong presence of Latino baseball players since the 1940s, Armando Rodriguez in 1974 and Rich Garcia in 1975, both in the American League, were the first Hispanic umpires in the majors.

all cats can swim despite their hatred of water

Tigers don't hate water.

Siamese, Abyssinians and Turkish Van cats are very fond of water. My first Siamese, Samantha loved it. Prince does too, but not as much as Samantha did.