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Fast facts: The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum Over 2,500 left-handed people a year are killed from using products made for right-handed people. There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. There are more plastic flamingos in the United States than real ones. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.

 

On this date: Wednesday August 29th, 2001 Catherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII of England, died soon after giving birth to a daughter in 1548. Edith Eleanor McLean, born in 1888, was the first baby to be in an incubator, formerly called a hatching cradle. The first automobile race at a racetrack was won by A.H. Whiting in 1896. The race took place in Cranston, Rhode Island and the car never exceeded 24 mph. The doors of the New York Post Office building opened to the public in 1914.

 

Quotable... "The conclusions are that drugs are still the first or second biggest business of mankind." -Columbian President Andres Pastrana on why the United States should review the drug war struggle