Have you ever wondered how much it would cost if you bought everything from the famous Christmas song “12 Days of Christmas”? This year, it will cost you a whopping $21,465.56. Last year it only would have cost you $21,080.10.

Here’s the breakdown:
12 Drummers Drumming- $2,475.20
11 Pipers Piping- $2,284.80
10 Lords a Leaping- $4,413.61
9 Ladies Dancing- $5,473.07
8 Maids a Milking- $58.00
7 Swans a Swimming $5,250.00
6 Geese a Laying- $150.00
* 5 GOLLLLLLDEN RIIIIIIIIIINGS* -$499.95
4 Calling Birds- $599.96
3 French Hens- $45.00
2 Turtle Doves- $55.98
1 Partridge in a Pear Tree- $159.99

Knowing useless information such as this? Priceless.

• Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic.
• New York City is one of only 4 major U.S. Cities with drinking water so pure it doesn’t require processing by water treatment plants.
• Holland is the only country with a national dog.
• When a meteor lands on Earth it is not usually hot.
• French dressing neither originated, nor has been popular, in France.
• Great Britain is the 9th largest island on earth.
• In Alabama, it’s against the law to play dominoes on Sunday.
• More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
• There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.

• Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water.
• Camels have three eyelids
• A jellyfish is 95% water.
• A female kangaroo is called a Flyer.
• A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
• Cats have over 100 vocal chords.
• A Goldfish’s attention span is five seconds.

• You don’t have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice.
• The first person crossed Niagara Falls by tightrope in 1859.
• Colors like red, yellow and orange make you hungry.
• The largest cheesecake ever made weighed 57,508 lbs.
• The English alphabet in order of its frequency of use is: E T A O I N S H R D L U C M F G Y P W B V K X J Q Z
• A kiss lasting one minute can burn more than 100 calories
• Pearls dissolve in vinegar
• The sound of E.T.’s walking was made by someone squishing their hands in Jello.

This is the sleep-version of Learning Something New.

• Salvador Dalí would doze in his chair, holding a spoon above a pan. When he fell asleep, the spoon would drop and the clatter would wake him. These catnaps sustained him for many years, though perhaps they may explain the hallucinogenic aspect of much of his work
• The inventor Nikola Tesla claimed to need only three hours of sleep, and often missed those if engrossed in a project. He wrote of his work: “Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything”
• The American President Calvin Coolidge would sleep eight hours at night and usually took a three-hour nap in the afternoon. Apparently, his first act after inauguration was to take a nap in the White House
• Albert Einstein slept ten hours a night, although if he were busy he would take 11. He thought dreams allowed him to think more clearly
• William Gladstone was said to be able to sleep at will. This gift was also enjoyed by Napoleon
• The French scientist Abraham de Moivre enjoyed sleeping up to 20 hours a day in his old age.
• Gordon Brown is notorious among colleagues for working late. Last month it was reported that Tessa Jowell and Peter Mandelson had been charged with the task of ensuring that he got more shuteye.

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 +4 = 9876

And so on

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• This recipe for baked pretzels makes me hungry. I think I might have to give them a try sometime this week.
• As some of you may have seen that I am getting a new house, all these ideas of remodeling are flooding my head. The Real Vertical House shows the progress of people remodeling their own home. It looks like fun, but what a process! Their house looks amazing now!
• There’s a group of folks who love to address the brilliance of the font Helvetica… now people are showing how amazing the font Arial is too! It’s EVERYWHERE!
• If you really need to be reminded about something, then get someone to Hassle you.
• I have been deciding to create a personal brand for myself. This article on starting over, also applies to just starting on a new personal brand for you and your company.
• Are these not the coolest light switches ever?
• Note to self: Don’t use the “standby” symbol in anything I brand.
• And… keep Your Logo Makes Me Barf in mind when I create anything branded, too.

• Robert Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel, the same hotel that housed the first modeling agency to employ Marilyn Monroe.
• The citrus soda 7-Up was created in 1929: “7″ was selected because the original containers were seven ounces. “Up” indicated the direction of the bubbles.
• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
• The Grand Canyon remained undiscovered until 1869
• A wind with a speed of seventy-four miles per hour or more is designated a hurricane.
• Each King in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: spades-King David; clubs-Alexander the Great; hearts-Charlemagne; and diamonds-Julius Caesar.

• Leonardo da Vinci spent 12 years painting the Mona Lisa’s lips.
• Table salt is the only commodity that hasn’t risen dramatically in price in the last one hundred and fifty years.
• Alexander Graham Bell never telephoned his wife or mother. They were both deaf.
• Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
• In Fantasia, the sorcerer’s name is Yensid – Disney spelled backwards.
• Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence the tinted bottles.