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TRIVIAL DRIVEL (cont’d) The average home buyer looks at 14 homes before making a purchase. The average American lives in 30 different abodes over the course of a lifetime. Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter has gone on record saying he witnessed a UFO. Between 1900 and 1920, Tug of War was an officially sanctioned Olympic event. Diamonds are simply crystallized carbon (like coal or soot) and will burn at a temperature of 1652° F. (900° C.) Red wines are fermented from grapes that still have their skins on. White wines come from grapes with no skins. When Walt Disney went to collect his Academy Award for the film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” he was handed one regular sized award statue and seven little tiny ones. The term ‘carpet’ comes from the Latin word ‘carpere’ meaning ‘to pluck’ probably because carpets were made from ‘plucked’ fabric. Carpet has the same Latin root as ‘carpe diem’ meaning ‘pluck/seize the day.’ Caterpillars completely liquefy inside the cocoon as they transform into moths. Humans can survive longer without food than they can without sleep. Months that start on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th. The State of Florida is bigger than England. Ants stretch when they get up in the morning. About 7 to 12 million slaves were transferred from Africa to the Americas between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Men outnumber women in U.S. prisons by about 25 to 1.

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TRIVIAL DRIVEL (cont’d) Michael Jackson’s 1988 autobiography “Moonwalk” was edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Horses can’t vomit. Koalas sleep up to 22 hours a day. The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” which uses every letter in the English alphabet, was developed by Western Union to test communication systems. One out of every five people on the planet is Chinese. On Valentine’s Day, nearly 189 million stems of roses are sold in the U.S. The little dot over the lowercase letter ‘i’ is called a tittle. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” movie was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white. About 10% of the world’s bird species live in Thailand, a greater diversity than in all of Europe or North America. Voice actor Thurl Revenscroft sang “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and was also the voice of Tony the Tiger. The Corduroy Appreciation Club celebrates 11-11-11 as ‘The Day That Most Resembles Corduroy.’ Bug repellent doesn’t repel mosquitoes; it simply masks your body odor with a new scent that female mosquitoes dislike. Rome was the first city to reach a million people. Fortune cookies were invented by a cook in San Francisco in 1920. The bladder of a male lobster is located in its head. When they fight, they squirt each other in the face with urine.

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VA Makes Changes to Choice Program In 2015 the Department of Veterans Affairs made an important change to the Veterans Choice program: the distance to medical centers. Originally, the distance was measured as the crow ﬂies. In mountainous regions, that straight line could turn into double the miles in actual travel. The change it made was to switch to driving miles: If a veteran is over 40 miles driving distance from a medical facility with a full-time primary-care physician, he or she qualifies for care at a civilian facility.

The VA recently added more changes to the Choice program. A veteran now qualifies if he or she: * Cannot get a desired appointment within 30 days, or if an appointment can’t be scheduled within 30 days of when the physician wants the patient to be seen. * Must take a boat, ferry or airplane to get to the closest VA facility. * Faces a burden in the form of frequency of care needed, medical condition, need for an attendant to travel, or geographic or environmental factors. * Lives in an area with no full-service VA medical care, such as Alaska, Hawaii, New Hampshire (unless within 20 miles of the White

River Junction facility) or Territories (except for Puerto Rico). Other services added since the Choice Program’s inception include standardized care for veterans who use telemedicine, an extension of the Assisted Living Program for those with traumatic brain injury until 2017, and care for sexual trauma that happened to National Guard or Reserve members during inactive duty training. To learn more about the Veterans Choice Program, go online to www.va.gov/opa/ choiceact. Or call 1-866-606-8198 to schedule an appointment or verify eligibility. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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