Did you know that Bob Farris caught 1, 062 pound marlin worth $550,000?

OCEAN CITY, Md. Bob Farris big fish story captured a record.

The part-time North Myrtle Beach resident caught a blue marlin Wednesday that weighed 1,062 pounds during the 36th Annual White Marlin Open Fishing Tournament in Ocean City, Md. The fish set a new state record and landed Farris $555,000 in prize money in the tournament that has more than $2 million in prizes and nearly 300 boats registered.

``It was quite a fish, Farris said via telephone Thursday from Maryland. ``We knew it was a big fish, but really I had no idea it was over 1,000 pounds.

Farris was on the boat No Problem, owned by Mark Becker, out of North Myrtle Beach and he credited the crew with helping land the record catch, which surpassed Maryland�s previous blue marlin record by 100 pounds.

Boat captain Skip Opalko of Myrtle Beach said the crew travels along the eastern seaboard to various fishing tournaments.

Did you know that The U.S. of A shreds 7,000 tons of used currency each year?

Did you know that:


Only As of the 2008 Games, four athletes have won medals in both the Summer and Winter Games: 1) Eddie Eagen of the United States

Winter Games - gold in four man bobsled in 1932.
Summer Games - gold in light-heavyweight boxing in 1920 USA, Jacob

















2) Jacob Thams of Norway

Winter Games - gold in ski jumping in 1924
Summer Games - silver in sailing in 1936.










3) Christa Luding-Rothenburger of East Germany

Winter Games - gold in speed skating in 1984 and 1988, silver in speed skating in 1988, bronze in speed skating in 1992
Summer Games - silver in cycling in 1988.

She is the only athlete to have won medals at a Winter and Summer Games in the same year.








4) Clara Hughes of Canada

Winter Games - gold, silver (both in 2006) and bronze (2002) in speed skating.
Summer Games - 2*bronze in cycling in 1996.







The U.S. of A shreds 7,000 tons of used currency each year.























Galileo became totally blind just before his death.

Did you know that the Hubble Space Telescope weighs (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 12) long?

Did you know that:



There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.


The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam.







A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons (18,160,000 kilograms) of vegetation a day.





The Hubble Space Telescope weighs (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 12 tonsmeters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.





The fastest computer in the world is the CRAY Y-MP C90 supercomputer. It has two gigabytes of central memory and 16 parallel central processor units.




















The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.




















The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Did you know that the only food a cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers?

Did you know that:

The Great Barrier Reef is composed of roughly 3,000 individual reefs, 900 islands
stretching for 2,600 kilometres and has more than 1,500 species of fish living on it.







The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers.








Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he didn't wear pants.







You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes, A male grunts, A female hisses.







There are no public toilets in Peru.



Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.

Did you know that there are 17 different types of penguins?

Did you know:



It takes 9 pennies to weigh one ounce.






Kermit the frog has eleven spikes on his collar.










There are 17 different types of penguins.








There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history







In ancient China, criminals who attacked travellers had their noses cut off.

Did you know that: William Wyler directed directed 34 Oscar nominated films

Did you know that:


William Wyler directed directed 34 Oscar nominated and 13 Oscar winning performances, the winners are:




















* Walter Brennan - Come and Get It (1936)






* Bette Davis - Jezebel (1938)








* Walter Brennan - The Westerner (1940)






* Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver (1942)







* Teresa Wright - Mrs. Miniver (1942)




* Frederic March - The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)







* Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)





* Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress (1949)








* Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday (1953)








* Burl Ives - The Big Country (1958)







* Charleton Heston - Ben-Hur (1959)







* Hugh Griffith - Ben-Hur (1959)







* Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl (1968)

Did you know that When your arrearage hits $2,000, it goes on your credit report?

Did you know these are ten things you might not know about your friend of the court:

1. In the summer and on holidays when you have your kids 50 percent of the time, you still have to pay the full amount. They just changed this one. If you can't feed your kids, oh well. Pay up.

2. When your arrearage hits $2,000, it goes on your credit report. You can get out of credit card and bad mortgage debt, but nobody will help you with this debt. Bankruptcy is not an option. This is your fault.

3. It doesn't matter who left who, or who cheated on who. Michigan is a no-fault state. Quit whining and pay up.

4. Your children, no matter how old, are not allowed in hearings or conferences. They are not important. Your money is. Bring it.

5. Whatever you do, do not do any side work or play in a band. You will regret it.

6. When you lose your job or get laid off, your support amount does not go down. How dare you lose your job. Pay up.

7. You pay the taxes on child support. If you are behind, you do not get tax returns or stimulus checks. Oh well.

8. If you quit your job, you can get a lawyer and health insurance. If you work for minimum wage, forget it. You need to make more money.

9. Don't bother bringing in past-due bills or eviction notices. Not important. If you think your ex is not spending the money on your kids, accountability is not an option. Pay up.

10. It doesn't matter if you or your ex is living with anybody. If you live alone, that's your fault.

If this seems kind of bitter, you would be, too. So I'd like to thank all the real "deadbeat dads" that don't care about their kids for making things harder for the rest of us.