1927 - Babe Ruth signed a 3-year contract with the New York Yankees for $70,000 a year, making him baseball’s highest paid player.

1962 - On this night, Wilt Camberlain was unstoppable, making 36 field goals and 28 free throws for an even 100 points against the New York Knicks, at Hershey, Pennsylvania, to lead the Philadelphia Warriors to a 169-147 victory, and set a basketball world record.

1974 - Postage stamps for first-class mail jumped from 8 to 10 cents.

Yellowstone National Park in the state of Wyoming has more geysers than any other field known in the world.

Cupid has long played a role in the celebrations of love and lovers. He is known as a mischievous, winged child, whose arrows would pierce the hearts of his victims causing them to fall deeply in love. In ancient Greece he was known as Eros the young son of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. To the Roman’s he was Cupid, and his mother Venus

For Men Only http://www.theromantic.com/valentinesday/ideas/main.htm

 In order to make 9 gallons of milk a day, a cow must drink 18 gallons of fresh, clean water (2 gallons of water for every gallon of milk).

 “It takes about 20 minutes for food to be digested enough that glucose gets into the bloodstream and the hormones start working.” If you have already consumed most of a meal in 20 minutes’ time, your brain will receive satiety signals too late to slow your eating.

“By 1940, nine out of ten American homemakers knew Betty Crocker. She was the second best known woman in America, following First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.” Betty Crocker wasn’t real, she was the pen name for General Mills Consumer Response Department. -The Crazy Makers

 Quote of the Day
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
- John F. Kennedy

Fact of the Day
Designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel introduced her first perfume in 1921. She gave it the name “Chanel No. 5.” According to Chanel, she jumped straight to number five because it was her lucky number. To add luck to the fragrance, she introduced it on the fifth day of May, the fifth month. Chanel No. 5 became the world’s best selling perfume.

Maybe she had it made with Ambergris (whale vomit)to help success. No really, they use it in perfumes. So think of that the next time you spiff up for a night out.

 Spain, Italy, and Brazil have banned underweight models from being on runways. They are forming a group to stop anorexia.

“Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come home.”
- Bill Cosby [William Henry, Jr.] (1937 - )

 A game called “The Checkered Game of Life.” was meant to be educational. The purpose was to finish the game with a peaceful retirement based on having made proper moral decisions.

By 1868, Milton Bradley was the leading manufacturer of games in America. Over the years, the object of the Game of Life shifted. In the modern version, the person who retires with the greatest fortune wins.

 Celebrities with known phobias include: Actress Natalie Wood was hydrophobic - her accidental death by drowning in the ocean in 1981 was very strange and unsettling for those who knew her well. Tennis champ André Agassi has a phobia of spiders, according to Brooke Shields in a statement to the press in October 1996. Supernatural novelist Anne Rice has stated that she fears the dark. Actress Kim Basinger has a phobia of wide, open spaces. Film director Alfred Hitchcock had a peculiar fear of eggs, according to biographer Donald Spoto. Country star Lyle Lovett reportedly is afraid of cows. Pop singer Michael Jackson appears to have a phobia of germs (referring to his obsessive wearing of a surgical-style mask when out in public).

 The most enjoyable nights sleep comes from fleece sheets, it’s true, just try them, you’ll love them.

I don’t buy Tom’s Of Maine Products. They are now owned by a large commercial company that makes similar products. They are no longer a small independent company.

 The things we like to help: Low back pain, headaches, neck pain, wrist pain, chronic pain, fibromyalgia pain

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Englands taste for potato chips is so strong that as a nation they consume a ton of potato chips every three minutes, enough to fill an Olympic size swimming pool every 14 hours.

It takes one to one and a half gallons of petroleum to produce one gallon of ethanol.

Health care costs are climbing at more than double the level of inflation, financially straining government coffers and company finances.

Clogged heart arteries and pregnancy are the two most expensive conditions, contributing to $790 billion in annual hospital costs in the United States, according to a government study released on Friday.

 The T.V. Show “Dancing with the Stars” uses a chiropractor for their dancers. They actually mentioned it on one of their shows.

Quote of the Day

“Men like to barbecue. Men like to cook only if danger is involved.”
- Rita Rudner