Each year, over 1,000,000 people fail to itemize out the mortgage interest deduction on their income taxes. Last year, this amounted to $473,000,000 in taxes.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.

One alternative title that had been considered for NBC's hit "Friends" was "Insomnia Café."

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