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.

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.

And so on

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• 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.