DONALD DUCK SAVES THE DAY
Why Donald Duck may go down in history as the savior of Kuwait!
In 1964, a freighter carrying 6000 sheep sinks in Kuwait's harborthreatening to poison the country's water supply. The ship has to be raised but how?
Then Danish engineer Karl Kroyer remembers a comic book he read as a boy where Donald Duck had a similar problem with Uncle Scrooge's yacht.
Donald solved the problem by filling the yacht with ping pong balls, which floated the boat to the surface.
So Kroyer decides to copy the idea. He pumps millions of hollow pellets into the ship's hull. And it works!
But few knew the genius that came up with the solution was a duck!
THE CHOCOLATE BAR TEST
This is fun ... Take this cute chocolate test to find out your true being. If you were buying candy and you had your choice of the following, which one would you choose?
BABY RUTH
3 MUSKETEERS
BUTTERFINGERS
SNICKERS
HERSHEY'S
ALMOND JOY
CLARK BAR
GOOD 'n' PLENTY
ENERGY BAR
CHOCOLATE COATED RAISINS
OK - Now that you've made your choice, this is what research says about you! NO....you can't change your mind once you decide through!
So think carefully, what your choice will be! NOW...SCROLL DOWN...
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BABY RUTH ...Sweet, loving, cuddly. You love all warm fuzzy items. A little nutty. Sometimes you need an ice cream cone at the end of the day.
3 MUSKETEERS ... You are adventurous, love new ideas, are a champion of underdogs and a slayer of dragons. When tempers flare up, you whip our your saber.
BUTTERFINGERS ... Smooth and articulate, you are an excellent after-dinner speaker and a good teacher. But don't try to walk and chew gum at the same time.
SNICKERS ... Fun-loving, sassy, humorous. Everyone enjoys being around you, but you are a practical joker. Others should be cautious in shaking hands!
HERSHEY ... Romantic, warm, loving. You care about other people and can be counted on in a pinch. You tend to melt.
ALMOND JOY..Sexy, always ready to give and receive, very energetic, and really likes to get into life. The opposite sex is always attracted to you.
CLARK BAR..You like Sports, whether baseball, football, basketball, or soccer. If you could, you would like to participate, but enjoy watching sports. You don't like to give up the remote control.
GOOD 'n' PLENTY ... You are a very fun loving person, who likes to laugh. You are fun to be with. People like to hang out with you. You are a very warm hearted person.
ENERGY BAR ... Life is passing you by. Get a life! Go eat a plum.
CHOCOLATE COATED RAISINS ... You go to the bathroom often.
THE SEVENTH INNING STRETCH
-Baseball, the president, and the birth of a baseball tradition-
A baseball tradition is started in 1910 when President William Howard Taft opens the season by throwing out the first ball. In years to come, a veritable parade of presidents will follow in his footsteps..
But the 330 pound Taft is credited with popularizing another tradition the same day.
By the middle of the 7th inning, his wooden seat becomes unbearable and the portly President stands up to stretch. The crowd thinks he is leaving, and respectfully rises.
But then Taft sits down again, as does the crowd.
A presidential endorsement of a tradition that lasts 'til this daythe seventh inning stretch!
ABOUT CARTOONS
Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Did you know that Goofy actually started life as 'Dippy Dawg,' a combination of both Goofy and Pluto.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Donald Duck's sister is called Dumbella.
ABOUT FOOD
400 quarter pounders can be made out of one cow.
7% of Americans eat McDonalds each day.
A bowl of Wheaties contains twice as much sodium as a bowl of potato chips.
A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
A man named Ed Peterson is the inventor of the Egg McMuffin.
A Saudi Arabian women can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peels and raisins.
Almost 425,000 hotdogs and buns, 160,000 hamburgers and cheeseburgers were served at Woodstock '99.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.
ABOUT SPORTS
A forfeited game in baseball is recorded as a 9-0 score. In football it is recorded as a 1-0 score.
Anise is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in greyhound races.
Australian Rules football was originally designed to give cricketers something to play during the off season.
Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the summer Olympic games while hosting the event.
Dartboards are made out of horse hairs.
Four men in the history of boxing have been knocked out in the first eleven seconds of the first round.
In 1936, American track star Jesse Owens beat a race horse over a 100-yard course. The horse was given a head start.
In the four professional major north american sports (baseball, basketball, football and hockey) only 8 teams whose nicknames do not end with an s. These teams are the Miami Heat, the Utah Jazz, the Orlando Magic, the Boston Red Sox, the Chicago White Sox, the Colorado Avalanche, The Minnesota Wild, and the Tampa Bay Lightning.
In the United States, more Frisbee discs are sold each year than baseballs, basketballs, and footballs combined.
Rudyard Kipling, living in Vermont in the 1890's invented the game of snow golf. He would paint his golf balls red so that they could be located in the snow.
The expression getting someone's goat is based on the custom of keeping a goat in the stable with a racehorse as the horse's companion. The goat becomes a settling influence on the thoroughbred. If you owned a competing horse and were not above some dirty business, you could steal your rival's goat (seriously, it's been done) to upset the other horse and make it run a poor race. From goats and horses it was linguistically extended to people: in order to upset someone, get their goat. (Source: A BROWSER'S DICTIONARY)
The hammerthrow is illegal as a high school sport in all states except Rhode Island.
Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920. 
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