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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Famous (and not so famous) Quotes...
Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself ... Lillian, you should have remained a virgin. -- Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter) Amusing or Irrelevant Facts...
The town of Tenino, Washington, issued wooden money in 1932. Made of Sitka spruce, the wooden coins were worth 25 cents, 50 cents and $1. They didn't make any wooden nickels, though. (I wonder if it's because the phrase, "Don't take any wooden nickels" was coined just a few years earlier, in 1915. The saying was a warning against conniving city slickers to the simple country folk moving to town for jobs. In fact, no wooden nickels were ever counterfeited. It would have been too expensive.)