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Continued From Page 1 joy some spooky fun on Halloween night and gum with the artificial sweetener xylitol also are

COSTUMES become more visible when the sun sets. But problematic. Candy wrappers can get stuck in
Pet costumes are popular and can help own- those glow sticks may be attractive to pets and the intestinal tract and cause a life-threatening
they can bite them, ingesting the liquid. The AS-
ers and their pets coordinate for Halloween. PCA Animal Poison Control Center says typi- blockage. Lock candy away so pets can’t get into
Some pets may find costumes uncomfortable cally pets experience a mild and self-limiting it.
or frightening. For those with a mind toward taste reaction to glow stick liquid. Wiping off
creative costume coordination, introducing the the excess with a damp cloth to help prevent the NERVES
costume to the pet slowly and gradually can pet from licking again and having another reac- Many youngsters will ring the door bell on
help ease the transition. Allow the pet to sniff tion can help. Halloween. Anxious pets, and even those that
the costume and put treats nearby to indicate it normally aren’t nervous with visitors, may be
is no threat. If the pet simply will not warm to ACCESSIBILITY TO CANDY overwhelmed. Keep pets in a dark, calm room
the idea of a costume, it’s best not to force the One of the biggest Halloween dangers for away from the door to reduce anxiety and make
issue. pets is the accessibility of candy, especially choc- it less likely skittish pets will escape the home
olate. Chocolate is toxic and particularly dan- and get lost.
GLOW STICKS gerous to dogs. Chocolate with high amounts Understanding common Halloween dangers
Glow sticks are a safe way for children to en- of cacao is especially dangerous. Raisins and can help keep pets safe on this fun-filled holiday.

The ancient Greeks believed that amethysts ty in the 1930s, adults worried that kids “threat-
could ward off intoxication and hangovers, so ening” people with tricks if they didn’t get can-
they often drank wine from cups carved from dy would encourage them to become criminals
the gemstone. later in life.

Seven percent of Americans steal toilet paper In Utah, birds have the right of way on a high-
rolls in hotels or motels. way.
By Lucie Winborne
About 70-75% of the world’s population does The first cigarette lighter was invented three
not even use toilet paper. years before the first friction match.
The U.S. postmaster general was in the line of
succession to the presidency until 1971.
The world’s tiniest robot is smaller than a grain In 1993, a Mexican zoo owner was arrested for

There are more mobile phones than people alive. of salt. illegally purchasing an FBI agent in a gorilla
suit, thinking the agent was an actual gorilla.
In the late 18th century, Sweden’s King Gustav Despite what you see when you gaze at the night On his deathbed, Steve Jobs asked for five dif-
III tried to prove that coffee was a deadly sub- sky, the moon’s actually shaped like a lemon, ferent oxygen masks so he could choose the one
stance by making one twin drink coffee and the with flattened poles and bulges on its near and with the best design.
second one tea on a daily basis, while betting far sides around its equator.
on which would be the first to succumb. Both In 2009 a pigeon named Winston raced Telkom,
twins survived and outlived both the king and What’s in a name? Well, a casket is a rectangu- South Africa’s largest ISP, to see which one could
the doctors conducting the experiment. lar box with a lid, and a coffin is a six-sided box
that’s wider at the shoulders and narrower at the deliver 4GB of data to a location 60 miles away

The longest English word that generally appears feet. In America, caskets are more commonly the fastest. By the time Winston arrived with the
4GB flash drive, Telkom had transmitted only
in dictionaries is “pneumonoultramicroscopic- used than coffins. 4% of the data.
silicovolcanoconiosis,” the name of a lung dis-
ease. On the Titanic, more than 700 third-class pas-
sengers had to share just two bathtubs.

Watermelons were often used as canteens by
early explorers and travelers. Black and orange are the traditional colors of
Halloween because the ancient Celts believed
The tobacco industry spends almost $4 billion black symbolized the “death” of summer and or-
per year to promote smoking, more than is spent ange represented the fall harvest.
advertising and promoting any other product.
For the film “A Star Is Born,” Bradley Cooper
Black holes aren’t black. They glow slightly, giv- spent six months with a dialect coach trying to
ing off light across the whole spectrum. imitate Sam Elliott’s voice, before he knew El-
liott would be cast as his brother.
The world’s largest playable guitar is 43.5 feet
long. Some female sharks store sperm after mating,
potentially holding on to it for years before
Before an NHL game, hockey pucks are frozen they’re ready to reproduce.
to make them glide more smoothly and reduce
bouncing. When trick-or-treating began gaining populari-