Did you know:

• That a dog's sense of smell is at least 100 times the sensitivity over that of humans....

• An 18-hole golf course uses enough water daily to supply more than 2000 families....

• It requires 48 gallons of water to produce 8oz. of milk, and 2,275 gallons of water for a single six-inch silicon wafer....

• Using his influence in Hollywood and of course his own media empire, William Randolph Hearst was instrumental in illegalizing Mary Jane in the USA because of a particular variety of "hemp" (very low in THC) was potentially a threat to his paper mills and logging interests.  Hemp produces 4 times as much usable paper pulp than trees and is an annually renewable crop....

• A single little brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquitoes-sized insects in just one hour....

Memories:

• We had some family friends from Germany when I was living in New jersey.  Once summer they brought back some gifts to give to my brother and I, upon their return from Germany.  We were each given a pair of Lederhosen.  Quite the authentic cultural artifacts from Bavaria, my folks were very gracious and made me wear them to school.  I was in the 1st grade...

• My first vivid hallucination was when I was 4 and sick and running a high fever.  I walked into our kitchen in my family's apartment and looked up on top of the fridge.  There was a Planters Peanuts jar sitting there and the little peanut guy leapt off the label and did a dance on top of the fridge.  It freaked me out and I ran back to bed....

• I was sitting on my best friend's brick deck when I was about 9.  We were just hanging out and I watched this big brown spider crawl out of a crack in the bricks.  It only crawled a few inches and then just simply curled upside down and died.  It struck me that I had never seen something die on its own before....