Fun Facts

[Grady]

Legos
Approximately 19 billion Lego elements are produced per year. 2.16 million are molded every hour, 36,000 every minute.
There are about 62 Lego bricks per person of the Earth's population.
Germany is the number-one Lego market, Lego is the number-one toy company in Germany.

[The Mirror]

When the stock market crashed in 2008, Goldman Sachs made $20.8 billion in profits coming directly out of people's retirement funds.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.was found in 1869 and has been bailed out by the taxpayers 14 times since, including 2 bailouts in 2008.

This guy would never be allowed on CNN,ABC,CBS,NBC, MSNBC, and especially FOX News..French TV is still free
http://www.sprword.com/videos/goldmansachs/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Grady]

When the stock market crashed in 2008, Goldman Sachs made $20.8 billion in profits coming directly out of people's retirement funds.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.was found in 1869 and has been bailed out by the taxpayers 14 times since, including 2 bailouts in 2008.

This guy would never be allowed on CNN,ABC,CBS,NBC, MSNBC, and especially FOX News..French TV is still free
http://www.sprword.com/videos/goldmansachs/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Come on you can do better than a 4 year old video of 3rd rate "finical broadcaster" whose biggest shows are on Al Jazeera or Russian TV?

[The Mirror]

Don't dispute the man, dispute what he's saying....

[cabinish]

Legos
Approximately 19 billion Lego elements are produced per year. 2.16 million are molded every hour, 36,000 every minute.
There are about 62 Lego bricks per person of the Earth's population.
Germany is the number-one Lego market, Lego is the number-one toy company in Germany.

I think Grady cheated and substituted Legos from his national debt post, fyi.

[Grady]

Lewis and Clark expedition left a trail of heavy-metal laxatives.
Lewis and Clark’s men made their way across the continent and across Oregon, they were unknowingly depositing a trail of heavy metals along the way – a trail that historians and scientists have been able to detect and use to document almost their every movement, so to speak. the time of the American revolution, a substance called “calomel” was the laxative of choice.


This recipe for a milder version of Rush's Bilious Pills
comes from the National Formulary in 1945. This
image appears in the Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan
Foundation's Web site, at which there's a lot more
information about the ingredients in this compound.
Mercury was still being used as an internal medicine
in the 1960s and as a topical antiseptic (chiefly as
Mercurochrome) into the 1990s.
Calomel was the wonder drug of the age. In large doses, it functioned as a savage purgative, causing lengthy and productive sessions in the outhouse, guaranteeing the restoration of one’s bile balance. And in small doses, it was effective against the most dreaded “social disease” of the age, syphilis.

But take too much of it and your teeth would fall out, and you might die of mercury poisoning. Calomel’s modern scientific name is mercury chloride.

[Grady]

Whales milk is similar in constancy as toothpaste; it must be thick, or else it will dissipate into the surrounding water.

[The Mirror]

Imperial Rome spent 15% of its tax revenue on its war machine, the imperial United States spends 54% of its tax revenue on its war machine.

[The Mirror]

Every year the state of Israel spends 200 times more on war and destruction than the Palestinian people.

[The Mirror]

The world spends 12 times more on military expenditures than on aid to impoverished peoples, even though there is no real war.