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STRANGE

BUT

TRUE

By Lucie Winborne

I n Birmingham, as Unthanksgiving Day, to “the most bananas sliced with
a sword on a slackline in one
commemorate the 1969
England, 2.5 million
Mills & Boon books
minute” by slicing 36 of them in
occupation of Alcatraz and to
were pulped to
create the top layer protest the colonialist history of 60 seconds.
Thanksgiving.
of the M6 toll road. In the 1970s, the NFL team now
Instead of saying something like called the Seattle Seahawks
A dog that had been kicked by a “the cat’s pajamas” or “the bee’s opened a competition in which
driver returned with a bunch of knees,” the French say “the baby the public could suggest and vote
its friends and proceeded to trash Jesus in velvet shorts.” on a name for them. About 1,750
the man’s car, chewing up the suggestions and 20,000 entries
fenders and wipers. In 2013, an American man named were received.
Ashrita Furman took the title of
Charles Joughin, the chief
baker on the Titanic, allegedly Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t
treaded water for two hours “ matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve
before being rescued from the done something wonderful, that’s what matters
sunken vessel. He later claimed
that the copious amounts of to me.” -- Steve Jobs
whiskey he consumed before the
ship went down kept his body
warm enough to survive the
subfreezing ocean temperature.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
once eloquently said: “I love
Thanksgiving turkey. It’s the only
time in Los Angeles that you see
natural breasts.”

The red parasol moss Splachnum
rubrum grows only on moose
poop.

Alcatraz holds an annual
Indigenous Peoples’ Thanksgiving
Sunrise Gathering, also known