Whether women actually need more sleep than do men is not the point. The point is they take more sleep- ordinarily, an average of 52 minutes more during each 24 hours- according to a recent survey.
 

Women's hemlines go up as the economy gets better. They stay put when nothing happens in commerce. They go down when business drops off. Questions is why. Nobody knows why, evidently, but the record indicates the pattern dates back more than 65 years.
 

What business did J. Edgar Hoover begin back in 1941 that was accused of being "the new home of disease, bribery, corruption, crookedness, rape, white slavery, thievery and murder?"....... The Motels
 

It's the claim of a coin expert named Edward Rochette that the great Cleopatra was ugly. A piece of money was minted in Egypt during her reign there from 50 to 30 B.C. It shows her features to be almost grotesque. Rochette says those ancient coins were quite accurate. He also said it's highly doubtful a queen with Cleopatra's power would permit coinmakers to portray her as the possessor of forbidding features unless in fact she was downright homely. 
 

Florida law forbids a housewife there to break more than three dishes a day.
 

An ordinance in Carmel, California, makes it unlawful for a lady to take a bath in a business office.
 

A scholar who has made a study of genes contents left-handed mothers are more likely than left-handed fathers to produce left-handed children.
 

The ladies of old Rome customarily put perfumed swan's fat in their bathtubs filled with donkey milk.
 

Mother's Day is the busiest day of the year for the telephone companies. More cards are purchased for Mother's Day than any other occasion.
 

Honeymoon -  The word first appears in the 16th century. The honey is a reference to the sweetness of a new marriage. And the moon is not a reference to the lunar-based month, but rather a bitter acknowledgment that this sweetness, like a full moon, would quickly fade.
 

The primary ambition of a Zulu's wife is to help her husband acquire sufficient means to buy another wife...  so they can split the chores.
 

Do you know at what time of day or night you were born? Theory is spreading that your birth sets your physical clocks to ticking, thus determining at the outset whether you were to be a day or night person. If you were born around dawn, you're thought to do your best work in the early morning. But if you were born in the late afternoon, you're not expected to perk up really until the evening. Or so goes the notion.