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A 99-YEAR-OLD WOMAN LEFT BEHIND AT LEAST 1,400 DESCENDANTS WHEN SHE DIED ON SATURDAY:

When a person passes away, it's pretty standard for their obituary to list off all the family members they left behind. But for some people, that's just not possible. Take 99-year-old Rachel Krishevsky who died on Saturday in Jerusalem, Israel . . .

--When Rachel was 19, she married her husband, Yitzik, and they had 11 kids together.

--Then their 11 kids had around 14 kids each, resulting in 150 grandchildren.

--Then the 150 grandkids had around SEVEN kids each, resulting in 1,000 great grandkids.

--And over the past few years, those great grandkids have had several hundred great-great-grandchildren.

--Overall, Rachel's family members estimate that when she died, she left behind NO FEWER than 1,400 descendants. (!!!)(--The craziest thing is that, according to one of her grandkids, Rachel knew all of her descendants BY NAME. My dad only had three kids and he can't even keep us straight all the time. Anyway, check out a photo of Rachel here . . .)(ABC News)


BY THE END OF THE YEAR, THERE WILL BE MORE SUBWAY RESTAURANTS THAN MCDONALD'S RESTAURANTS WORLDWIDE:

With 32,158 locations, McDonald's is the world's largest fast-food restaurant chain. But not for long . . . because by the end of the year, Subway is expected to surpass McDonald's in number of locations. Right now there are about 31,800 Subways. So how has Subway done it?

According to Subway's chief marketing officer, quote, "We're not as visible as McDonald's because we can put a Subway restaurant into a relatively small footprint. We can be in a strip mall and don't need to be a big stand-alone restaurant."

But even though there are about to be more Subway locations, McDonald's still makes more money. According to a data agency called Technomic, the average McDonald's store made $2.3 MILLION last year. Meanwhile, the average Subway store only pulled in $445,000. (Daily Finance / Advertising Age)


HERE ARE TEN DIRTY TRICKS THAT RESTAURANTS USE TO SAVE A BUCK:

The problem with eating out is that since you're not preparing your own food, you never really know what you're getting.

--With that in mind, here are ten dirty tricks that restaurants have been known to use in order to save a few bucks:

#1.) Refilling bottled water with tap water: You may have already suspected that restaurants do this. Rumor has it that Voss brand bottled water is the easiest to reseal. So if a restaurant serves you Voss, watch out.

#2.) Reusing oil: Let's say you order a deep-fried lamb dish for dinner, and a deep-fried banana dish for dessert. There's a decent chance that both dishes were deep-fried using the same fry basket, and the same dirty oil.

#3.) Recycling baskets of chips and bread: Chances are you rarely finish an entire basket of chips or bread. But, instead of throwing out what you didn't eat, some restaurants will combine the remains of a few baskets and give them to someone else. (EWWWWW!!)

#4.) Topping off pitchers of beer with seltzer water: If you've ordered two pitchers of beer and you're already a little buzzed, there's a decent chance that your next pitcher will be topped off with just a bit of seltzer water.

#5.) Using generic booze: The general thinking is that most customers can't tell the difference between expensive, name-brand vodka and the cheap generic stuff.

#6.) Serving rotten meat: The trick is to wait until someone orders a steak well-done, and then serve them meat that's past its prime. Why? Because the more you cook meat, the more you disguise its true flavor.

#7.) Using fake creamer: Some restaurants will fill a milk jug halfway with non-dairy powdered creamer mix, and then top it off with real milk.

#8.) Serving caffeinated coffee as decaf: Can you tell the difference in taste between regular and decaf? Yeah, me neither.

#9.) Using cabbage instead of seaweed: Some restaurant owners figure their customers don't know anything about Chinese food. So instead of springing for seaweed, they'll cut cabbage into thin strips, deep-fry it and roll it in salt and sugar.

#10.) Souping up big ticket items: Have you ever been to a restaurant where they offer to add shaved truffles to your entrée for an additional fee?

--Well, the scam is that white truffles are more expensive than black truffles, but black truffles smell more appealing. So to get you to spend more, some restaurants will add black truffle oil to their white truffles to get you to spring for the pricier ones. (Slashfood)


THREE IN FOUR AMERICANS THINK WE'RE BECOMING RUDER AS A SOCIETY:

Don't get me wrong . . . I'm all for technological advancement. But sometimes I get the feel that all these new technologies really do is give us new ways to annoy each other. And, apparently, a lot of you agree with me.

According to a new Rasmussen Report, 51% of Americans think it's rude to talk on your cell phone in public.

--63% also think it's rude to text during a social event.

--And 51% of Americans say they've actually confronted another person about their rude behavior in public.

--Overall, THREE in FOUR Americans think that as a society, we're becoming much ruder. (My Fox - Washington, D.C.)