Trivia time

Finishing up the issue of World that the WorldMovers class did not complete in class next Sunday, I bring attention to these items of trivia:

• Americans spend less on Fathers' Day gifts than on Mothers' Day gifts:  $94.32 for fathers and $126.90 for mothers.  And I think the mothers deserve even more!
• Earth's moon is shrinking, according to the Smithsonian Institute, because of cooling of the moon's core.   Okay... the scientists admit it's only "slight" shrinkage.
• The Supreme Court upheld Arizona's law that revokes or suspends the licenses of business that hire illegal immigrants.  The vote was 5-3, with Elena Kagan recusing herself.
• In another Surpeme Court decision,the state of California was given two years to reduce its prison population by 40,000 prisoner.  Supposedly, the prison system isn't treating the prisoners "right" becuase the failities are overcrowded.  So releasing 40,000 of them back into society is good for California...exactly how?
• During the Clinton administration, the CIA hatched a plan to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.  And now, nearly 15 years later, former CIA operative Jeffrey Sterling is on trial for leaking this information to the NY Times.
• Egyptologist Sarah Parcak has used satellite imagery to reveal the whereabouts of seventeen lost Egyptian pyramids.  Those ancient builders were even busier than anyone previously imagined! 
• "Noodling," the art of catching catfish by hand, in now legal in 17 states, with the addition of Texas recently.  In order to "noodle," one has to stick one's hand in a hole at the bottom of a lake or river and wait for the catfish to sink its teeth into one's flesh.  Then the bite victim hauls the catfish up before it lets go.  Really.  AND there's a web site - CatfishGrabbers.com - really.