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Fast facts: The body has 70,000 miles of blood vessels. The heart pumps blood through this maze and back again once every minute. The sun contains more than 99.8 percent of the total mass in our solar system, while Jupiter contains most of the rest. The size of the first footprint on the moon was 13 by 6 inches, the dimensions of Neil Armstrong's boot. The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the prosecution must offer all of their files to the defense if the accused is suffering from amnesia. A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time. The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.

 

On this date: In 1682, William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, landed in what is now Chester, Pa. In 1814, the first steam-powered warship, the USS Fulton, was launched from New York. It was designed by Robert Fulton. In 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross was founded. In 1929, prices collapsed at the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street. The day became known as "Black Tuesday" and led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. In 1945, at Gimbels Department Store in New York City, the first commercially produced ballpoint pens went on sale. Selling for $12.50, the pens totaled a profit of $500,000 in the first month.

 

Quotable... "They were innocent, and they were brutally, viciously, unjustly taken from us," - Cardinal Edward Egan, the leader of New York's Roman Catholic archdiocese at the Ground Zero memorial service yesterday.