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Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.

An earthquake on December 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

Eight new choir robes are currently needed, due to the addition of several new members and the deterioration of some of the older ones.

Weight Watchers will meet at 7.30 pm at the Presbyterian Church. Please use the large double doors at the side entrance.

Our next song is: "Angels We Have Heard Get High."

If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?

You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?

Filed Under: Good Question

Astronomical Society of Pacific holds its 1st meeting in San Francisco.

Thursday February 7, 1889

Filed Under: → Science

John Ames Sherman of Massachusetts, United States, patents the 1st envelope folding and gumming machine.

Tuesday February 8, 1898

1st meeting of the Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America.

Wednesday February 6, 1861

Filed Under: → Politics

The man known as the 'Crocodile Hunter' died after his chest was punctured by a stingray barb while diving off Australia's northeast coast. The 44 year-old colourful personality was filming a documentary about the Great Barrier Reef when tragedy struck.

According to friend and colleague, John Stainton, Steve Irwin swam too close to the ray while he was diving off his boat "Croc One" near Batt Reef, northeast of Port Douglas.

Monday September 4, 2006

Filed Under: → Deaths

Relatives of a 91-year-old Ohio woman who died this week are giving her the last word with a sassy, occasionally profane obituary that starts with the basics, "I was born. I lived. I died.", and instructs people to "Wait the appropriate amount of time" before trying to claim her stuff.

They wrote it in Jean Oddi's perspective, recapping the people important to her, adventures she had and her favorite activities, including playing cards and teaching her granddaughter "dirty songs".

Thursday February 23, 2017

Filed Under: → Deaths

A father and son in Alabama were killed when they crashed into each other in a head-on collision. Jeffrey Morris Brasher and his son Austin Blaine Brasher of Bankston, Alabama, died early Saturday morning.

Jeffrey Brasher was driving a 2006 Ford pickup and his son was driving a 2004 Chevrolet truck when they collided on a highway head-on, said Alabama State Trooper Jonathon Appling.

Saturday February 18, 2017

Filed Under: → Deaths