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February
13th Celebrity Birthdays
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Jerry Springer (1944)
Kim Novak (1933)
George Segal (1934)
Peter Tork (1942)
Robbie Williams (1974)
Chuck Yeager (1923)
Oliver Reed (1938 - 1999)
Peter Gabriel (1950)
Kelly Hu (1968)
Stockard Channing (1944)
Peter Hook (1956)
Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919 - 1991) |
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February
13th's News Story
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A Charlotte, North Carolina man, having purchased a case
of rare, very expensive cigars, insured them against...
get this... FIRE. Within a month, having smoked his entire
stockpile of fabulous cigars, AND having yet to make a single
premium payment on the policy, the man filed a claim against
the insurance company. In his claim, the man stated that
he had lost the cigars in "a series of small fires."
The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious
reason that the man had consumed the cigars in a normal
fashion. The man sued... and won. In delivering his ruling,
the judge stated that since the man held a policy from the
company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable
and also guaranteed that it would insure the cigars against
fire without defining what it considered to be "unacceptable
fire," it was obligated to compensate the insured for
his loss.
Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process,
the insurance company accepted the judge's ruling and paid
the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he lost in "the
fires."
There's more to the story below
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February
13th's Fun Fact
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| Everybody is somebody else's
weirdo. |
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February
13th's Other True Facts
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► Two days after Charles
M Schulz died in 2000, the last original Peanuts comic strip
was printed in newspapers
► In 2004, astronomer Travis Metcalfe of the Harvard
- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believed he discovered
the largest diamond in the known universe at the center of
the white dwarf star, BPM 37093. Observations claim that the
core of the star is a diamond crystal 4000km in diameter.
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February
13th's News Story Finale
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After the man cashed his check, the insurance
company had him arrested on 24 counts of arson. With his
own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case
being used as evidence against him, the man was convicted
of intentionally burning the rare cigars and sentenced to
24 consecutive 1 month terms.
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