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Chicken Soup Swim: For a $5 donation to The Good Samaritan Inn in Timmins, Ontario, participants were given an opportunity to dive into a 94" x 28" swimming pool filled with warm chicken soup and nearly 100 unmarked keys to win a donated 1988 Chevy Silverado. The rules were simple. In 30 seconds participants must dive into the pool, fish around for a single key, rush to the vehicle and attempt to start it up. If it came to a roaring start, the truck was theirs. People could try for the key as many times as they wanted, but they had to donate $5 for each try. Participants had to be at least 18 years old and sign a waiver during registrations.

   Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, the third-largest volunteer relief organization in the United States, prepares the majority of meals distributed through the American Red Cross in a disaster as well as providing cleanup and recovery, communications, childcare and other vital disaster services. It has more than 600 mobile disaster response units and more than 30,000 trained volunteers who pay their own way and spend approximately six to eight days in travel and work time before being relieved. Southern Baptist Disaster Relief  volunteers prepared more than 1.3 million meals in the Gulf Coast area devastated by Hurricane Katrina in the first week alone.  

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Ivory Soap's most famous feature, its ability to float, was the result of an accident! An employee failed to shut off the soap-making machine when he went to lunch. When he returned, he found the soap mixture puffed-up and frothy. After consulting with his supervisor, the decision was made to finish and ship the soap since the ingredients had not been changed in any way by the longer mixing time. About a month later, P&G received orders for more of "the floating soap." The people in the Order Department were perplexed. Only after some detective work was the mystery solved. The long forgotten lunch-time accident had produced a floating soap! Today, Ivory floats because we intentionally whip a small amount of air into Ivory as it's being made. This makes the soap lighter than water, so it floats.  [Source: Procter & Gamble]

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