Friday's Fun Facts

Are you done Christmas shopping yet? Have you even started?

• Gaming and probability experts predict that one of the multi-state lottery games will have a jackpot in excess of one billion US dollars some time in the next 6.24 years if the rules for the current lotteries remain as they are currently constituted
• The most-purchased item at Office Depot is a 1.69 oz. bag of plain M&M's.
• A random sample of people named Anna conducted in 2002 by the Institute for Nomenclature found that 32 percent of the Anna's were unaware or had never noticed that their name was spelled the same backwards and forwards.
• In liquid form, the entire population of the United States could fit into ten major league stadiums, filled to the brim.