STRANGE BUT TRUE - Aug. 5, 2010

* It was librarian and essayist Frederick Saunders who made the following sage observation: “Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.”

* Earthquakes occur at a rate of roughly one every minute around the world. About eight of those every year are considered to be major, registering above 7.0 on the Richter Scale.

* Statistics show that the average 5-year-old boy today weighs about 10 percent more and the average 5-year-old girl about 8 p...