Strange but True
By SAMANTHA WEAVER

• Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was feminist author Gloria Steinem who defined a liberated woman as "one who has sex before marriage and a job after." It should be noted, however, that she made that observation in the early days of the feminist movement, before those activities became quite as widespread as they are today.

• Those who study such things claim that the more passionate the kiss, the more muscles are used by the kissers. Makes sense, once you think about it.

• As long as it doesn't get hotter than 60 degrees, experts say that the average person can live 11 days without water.

• If you're one of the millions of Americans who generously donate to a variety of worthy causes, I hope you won't let the following fact discourage you: Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and the world's richest man, and his wife, Melinda, have given away more money than any other couple in the world - more than $30 billion so far.

• Famed star of the silver screen Spencer Tracy, when asked what he looks for in a script, replied, "Days off."

• Francesca Trito was happily married to a well-dressed man in Spain - that is, until she learned her husband's dirty little secret. He got nearly all of his clothes off corpses he dug up in a cemetery near their home. After that discovery, Francesca wasted no time in divorcing him.

• The magazine PR Week once asked those in the publicrelations industry to name the worst people they ever had to work with. This is the list that they came up with: Mike Tyson, Eminem, Kathie Lee Gifford, Martha Stewart, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Dennis Rodman, Woody Allen and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs.

(c) 2006 King Features Synd., Inc.