Didja Know?

1. On average, a woman’s earnings decreases 4%for each child she has, while a man’s pay increases more than 6% when he becomes a father.

2. After spending nearly a year in space, astro-naut Scott Kelly is hanging up his spacesuit. The 52 year old Kelly, who spent 340 days in orbit on the International Space Station, will undergo tests to see how the human body holds up for long periods of time in space when compared with his twin brother, Marc, who remained on the ground.

3. New York City police cracked down on costumed characters who aggressively hassle tourists for tips in Times Square, arresting Capt. America, Jesse the cowgirl from Toy Story and at least 2 Spider Men.

4. English is rapidly becoming what the creators of Esperanto had envisioned: a language spoken on every continent and the primary medium for communication among different nations. Linguists estimate in 2115, only about 600 of the 6,000 language spoken around the world will remain.

5. A man in the U.K. paid $465 for lifesaving surgery for his constipated goldfish. “The actual surgery is quite straightforward,” said the vet. “Administer-ing the anesthetic is quite complicated.”

6. A police department in Northern CA decided to equip officers with nunchakus-wooden sticks connected by a chain and featured in many martial arts films – to better subdue unruly suspects. (All they need now is Bruce Lee to instruct them.)

7. A new study revealed that college football players who practiced without wearing helmets were 30% less likely to suffer potentially dangerous head impacts during games because they learned to stop using their heads as weapons while tackling.

8. A report, prepared by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Earth Institute of Columbia University named Denmark as the happiest country in the world, followed by Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia and Sweden. The U.S.A. came in at #13.

9. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiuborn Aug. 20,1910 in Skopje, Macedonia joined the Loreto order of nuns in 1928. This woman, known world-wide as Mother Teresa, cared for the poorest of the poor, founded the Missionaries of Charity order, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and will, deservedly, be elevated to Sainthood on Sept. 4, 2016.

10. About 20% of women who married in recent years chose to keep their birth names, according to an analysis of wedding data. Another 10% chose either to hyphenate their name or to legally change it while continuing to use their maiden name professionally.

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