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STRANGE

BUT

TRUE

By Lucie Winborne

A ustrian-American In 2023, North Dakota was there was an average of 7.44
composer Arnold
named the best state for
jokes per minute.
surviving a zombie apocalypse.
Schoenberg feared
the number 13 so
intensely that he We obtain 60% of our energy After “It’s the Great Pumpkin,
Charlie Brown” first aired in 1966,
deliberately misspelled his opera intake from just three plant Charles Schulz’s California office
“Moses und Aron” to have 12 species -- rice, wheat and maize. was inundated with shipments of
letters instead of 13. He also died candy sent from kids who were
on July 13, 1951, which would Spiders recycle webs by eating upset that Charlie Brown only
seem to confirm his phobia. them. got rocks in his Halloween goodie
bag.
The first round of women’s The sitcom “30 Rock” was known
golf was played in 1811 -- four for its fast-pace writing, with one Sloths might be the only
centuries after the sport was reporter calculating in 2014 that mammals that don’t fart.
invented.

and CBS -- still exist today, but “ Liberty means responsibility. That is why most
Almost all of the first major
people dread it.”-- George Bernard Shaw
television networks -- NBC, ABC

the second network to get off the
ground, the DuMont Television
Network, is mostly forgotten,
though it aired the first two
seasons of “The Honeymooners”
and “Mary Kay and Johnny,”
which is widely considered to be
the first sitcom.

Believe it or not, May is Zombie
Awareness Month, which
celebrates zombie media and
recognizes ways to prepare for a
zombie apocalypse. Participants
are encouraged to wear gray
ribbons to spread awareness
of the potential dangers of the
undead.