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STRANGE

BUT

TRUE

By Lucie Winborne

T he Beast from The term mortician was invented A study has shown that dunking
as part of a public relations
“Beauty and
an Oreo in milk for three seconds
the Beast” is a
renders the optimal balance
campaign by the funeral
combination of
several different industry, which considered it between sogginess and structural
more customer friendly than
integrity.
animals, with a lion’s mane, undertaker.
buffalo’s head and beard, gorilla’s Sloths may be the only animals
brow, tusks of a wild boar, bear’s Spiders recycle webs by eating that don’t fart.
body, legs and tail of a wolf ... them.
and eyes of a human. “Family Feud” host Richard
Beethoven was notably particular Dawson met his second wife,
Sweden is so efficient at waste about his coffee, ensuring that Gretchen Johnson, when she was
disposal that only 1% of its his morning brew was made with a contestant on the show -- and
garbage goes to landfills. precisely 60 beans per cup. yes, he kissed her.

When making badminton If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
shuttlecocks, the most prized “ it cannot save the few who are rich.”
feathers are said to come from a -- John F. Kennedy
goose’s left wing.

The 1967 Outer Space Treaty
prohibits any nation from trying
to own the moon.

A young man from Arizona saved
a woman’s life by using CPR
he’d learned from watching an
episode of “The Office.”

The German version of the
term “average Joe” is Otto
Normalverbraucher, or “Otto
normal consumer.”

In parts of Europe, folks believe
that if you light a cigarette from a
candle, a sailor will die.