Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe WALLET RETURNED 40 YEARS LATER Forty years ago, Gulli Wihlborg dropped her wallet while bicycling on Ostersjogatan Street in Trelleborg, Sweden. Advertisement The 58-year-old woman was stunned when she recently opened a large envelope and saw her old red wallet had been returned, the BBC reported. The wallet still contained everything that was in it when she dropped it -- receipts, photographs and half the money to pay her rent. "It took me back to my youth," she tells the Trelleborg Allehanda newspaper. The mystery sender has not explained why it took 40 years to return the wallet even though Wihlborg has lived at the same address for 25 years. SMOKE KILLS FRUIT FLIES Second hand smoke from cigarettes does serve a positive service, some New York City bar owners are finding out. Bar owners say that since the smoking ban went into effect last March, fruit flies have become a nuisance in many bars and now they have to add the cost of pesticides to their business expenses, the New York Post reports. "There is a lot of fruit in the bar, so fruit flies have always been of major concern to me," says Peter DuPre, owner of a bar known for using fresh fruit in drinks. Advertisement Nicotine has been used as a pesticide and has been around for centuries," according to Bruce Leistikow, a toxicologist affiliated with the University of California at Davis. NON-PROFITS PROVIDE PERKS Fortune 500 companies made headlines after giving low interest loans to top management, but the Chronicle of Philanthropy finds many non-profits do the same. When Catholic Healthcare West recruited Lloyd H. Dean to be its chief executive four years ago, it paid him one of the top annual salaries in the charity world -- $1.2 million in 2001. It also gave Dean a $2 million interest-free housing loan, due in five years, that helped him buy a penthouse condo overlooking San Francisco Bay. Dean, however, does not have the typical 30-year mortgage. The Chronicle reports the agreement will forgive all but $250,000 of Dean's debt if he stays in his job for five years. COHABITING DOES NOT LEAD TO MARRIAGE A study by Ohio State University suggests couples who live together before marriage may be less likely to eventually marry than previously believed. While many feel living together is a transitional period from being single to married, only 40 percent of those who cohabitated ended up marrying within four to seven years, finds the study published in the journal Social Science Research. Advertisement "For growing numbers of couples, cohabitation is now becoming an alternative to marriage or being single," says study co-author Sharon Sassler, an assistant professor of sociology at Ohio State University. "Many couples seem to be living together longer without marrying or ending their relationship."
