A Treasure From The Trash:

A treasure that a New York City woman saved from the trash -- a stolen masterpiece by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo -- is expected to go for as much as $1 million at auction this month.

Elizabeth Gibson will get a $15,000 reward for returning “Tres Personajes” (“Three People”) to its rightful owners, as well as an undisclosed percentage of the auction price.

Nearly four years ago Gibson was on her way to coffee when she spotted the painting among garbage bags set out for morning collection in her Upper West Side neighborhood. She walked by it at first but said she “immediately knew I had to go back. I knew I had to take it. It was a huge, powerful and beautiful painting and I said to myself, ‘It is wrong to be in the garbage.’”

Gibson said she learned of its worth when research led her to the Web site of “Antiques Roadshow FYI,” a companion program to the PBS show “Antiques Roadshow.” If Gibson had not acted so quickly after spying the painting, it might have been lost forever. A doorman nearby later told her that garbage collectors had come along just 20 minutes after she had left with her new finding.

Piles Of Money Found In Home:

Apparently the mattress was not large enough...piles and piles of coins have been found in a long abandoned home, some dating back to 1700’s.

Jeff Bidelman, owner of Rare Collectibles near Johnstown, said he was helping the family clean out the house after the death of the owners, who had not lived there for two decades. While helping to drag out bags of coins, Jeff he noticed a hole in an upstairs wall. Within minutes of tearing down the first-floor wall below the hole, Bidelman was wading in piles of old coins. After sorting through the coins, Bidelman found some minted as early as 1793. The coins are estimated to be worth as much as $200,000.

Hooked On Facts:

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Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.

The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.

It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.

The average life span of a hermit crab is 75 years!

Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.

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Just Joking:

Been Drinking?

A man’s been drinking at a pub all night. The bartender finally says that the bar is closing. So the man stands up to leave and falls flat on his face. He tries to stand one more time, same result. He figures he’ll crawl outside and get some fresh air and maybe that will sober him up.

Once outside he stands up and falls flat on his face. So he decides to crawl the 4 miles home and when he arrives at the door he stands up and falls flat on his face. He crawls through the door into his bedroom. When he reaches his bed he tries one more time to stand up. This time he manages to pull himself upright but he quickly falls right into bed and is sound asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow.

He awakens the next morning to his wife standing over him shouting at him. “So, you’ve been out drinking again!!”

“What makes you say that?” He asks as he puts on an innocent look.

“The pub called, you left your wheelchair there again.”

No Need To Pay:

A bartender asks a guy sitting at the bar, ‘What’ll you have?’

The guy answers, ‘A scotch, please.’

The bartender hands him the drink, and says ‘That’ll be five dollars,’ to which the guy replies, ‘What are you talking about? I don’t owe you anything for this.’

A lawyer, sitting nearby and overhearing the conversation, then says to the bartender, ‘You know, he’s got you there. In the original offer, which constitutes a binding contract upon acceptance, there was no stipulation of remuneration.’

The bartender was not impressed, but says to the guy, ‘Okay, you beat me for a drink. But don’t ever let me catch you in here again.’ The next day, same guy walks into the bar. Bartender says, ‘What the heck are you doing in here? I can’t believe you’ve got the audacity to come back!’

The guy says, ‘What are you talking about? I’ve never been in this place in my life!’ The bartender replies, ‘I’m very sorry, but this is uncanny. You must have a double.’ To which the guy replies, ‘Thank you. Make it a scotch.’

Honest?

While two families were waiting in line to see the Washington Monument, their two five-year-old boys were getting acquainted.

“My name is Joshua. What’s yours?” asked the first boy.

“Adam,” replied the second.

“My daddy is a doctor. What does your daddy do for a living?” asked Joshua.

Adam proudly replied, “My daddy is a lawyer.”

“Honest?” asked Joshua.

“No, just the regular kind,” replied Adam.