. You may not realize it, but Abner Doubleday, the man generally credited with inventing the game of baseball, was a Union general during the Civil War -- he even played a leading role in the Battle of Gettysburg. . It was author and noted humorist Roy G. Blount Jr. who made the following observation: "Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives." . Have you ever engaged in lip-clap? Chances are, you have -- and if you haven't, I feel terribly sorry for you! "Lip-clap" is simply a littleused term for kissing. . Last year, someone made a very generous donation to Goodwill -- and didn't even realize it. This unknown philanthropist dropped a painting off at a donation center, but he obviously didn't have much of an eye for art. Fortunately for Goodwill, one of its employees did recognize the potential value of the watercolor. The painting was auctioned for more than $165,000, the proceeds going to the charity. . Most of the caffeine in sodas comes from the leftovers from the process of making decaffeinated coffee. . The lemon shark grows a new set of teeth every two weeks. Considering that the shark would have to be alive to grow the teeth, I certainly wouldn't want to have been the one given the task of figuring that out. . In 1949, Popular Mechanics magazine stated, "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." . An acre of hemp can produce as much paper as four acres of trees. . It was comedian Norm Crosby who made the following sage observation: "When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty." . If you're an eBay junkie, you may have noticed a new trend: Some pregnant women are auctioning off ad space in the form of temporary tattoos on their bellies. . Aldous Huxley, British essayist and author of the famed novel "A Brave New World," originally wanted to become a scientist; unfortunately, an eye disease made him almost completely blind when he was 17 years old, so he turned to writing. When he learned to read Braille, he said he loved it because he could read in bed during the winter without getting his hands cold. . The people who make it their business to estimate such things say that this year between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Americans ate more than 7 billion hot dogs. . In case anyone's counting: There are 95 Hershey kisses in one pound of chocolate.

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