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Those little cardboard pine trees that smell like...well, I guess bigger, real pine trees have been around seemingly forever. It also seems like there are billions of them out there. Truth be told, they've only been around about 60 years, but yes, there are really billions of them...

The National American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) wants you to know that they'll be at their assigned posts once again this year, the 60th time, tracking Santa Claus on his flight around the planet Christmas Eve. It all started with an incoming phone call on the "red phone" to the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Christmas

Almost all of us have thrown one (or many), or have been on the receiving end of a water balloon. I remember spending several hours on a summer morning of my youth, filling up balloon after balloon on my parents' patio, all the while giggling with anticipation of a target rich environment when my next door neighbor (and best friend) John's sisters were planning on spending the day tanning in their