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Ripley’s daily fun facts cartoon was started in 1918 by Robert Ripley. The cartoon contains stories so bizarre it can only be called “Believe It or Not!”

1. Quokkas will drop their babies as a distraction to escape predators. 2. Hood ornaments originally has thermometers for gauging a car's coolant. 3. In 1893, U.S. Representative Lucas Miller proposed renaming the United States of America to the "United States of Earth."

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CARTOON 10-18-2018

John Graziano, October 18, 2018

Quokkas will drop their babies as a distraction to escape predators.

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1. Nintendo's Mario character was named after the landlord of their American headquarters in 1981, Mario Segale. 2. A tablespoon of light roast coffee has more caffeine than dark roast coffee. 3. Saturn, an 82-year-old American alligator, survived the Battle of Berlin when the city's zoo was bombed and he now lives in Moscow as a war trophy.

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CARTOON 10-17-2018

John Graziano, October 17, 2018

A tablespoon of light roast coffee has more caffeine than dark roast coffee.

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1. Smoke is flammable! 2. Ducklings learn abstract concepts like "same" and "different" faster than human infants. 3. Tigger and the Ticker! Paul Winchell, who voiced Tigger in Disney's "Winnie the Pooh," helped develop the first artificial heart!

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CARTOON 10-16-2018

John Graziano, October 16, 2018

Smoke is flammable!

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1. Abraham Lincoln had a Confederate $5 bill in his pocket when he was assassinated. 2. Smokejumpers are specialized firefighters who parachute into wildfires! 3. A new dinosaur species is discovered once every 10 days on average.

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CARTOON 10-15-2018

John Graziano, October 15, 2018

Smokejumpers are specialized firefighters who parachute into wildfires!

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1. IBM has patented a drone for delivering coffee to people who look like they need it. 2. In many places around the world, diesel fuel is dyed red to be used as heating oil. The color signifies no road or fuel taxed have been paid on it. 3 According to the University of Kansas, a slug's laziness is a survival tactic! 4. When Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic, it didn't have a windshield!

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CARTOON 10-14-2018

John Graziano, October 14, 2018

According to the University of Kansas, a slug’s laziness is a survival tactic!

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1. Roughly 100 firefighters are convicted of arson each year! 2. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, has sea wolves that swim from island to island surviving on a diet of seafood. 3. Romans insulted their enemies by calling them "butter eaters," comparing them to the milk-drinking barbarians of Northern Europe.

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CARTOON 10-13-2018

John Graziano, October 13, 2018

Roughly 100 firefighters are convicted of arson each year!

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1. Scientists exploring the hot and humid Cave of the Crystals in Mexico must wear refrigerated suits. 2. Helen Self, 109, was paid $1.25 to eat at the Montana Club Restaurant in Missoula, Montana on her birthday. The owner offers a percentage discount equal to the celebrant's age! 3. Some space probes are equipped with black-and-white cameras because color information would take too long to transmit back to Earth.

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CARTOON 10-12-2018

John Graziano, October 12, 2018

Scientists exploring the hot and humid Cave of the Crystals in Mexico must wear refrigerated suits.

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1. Pablo Picasso preferred to pay by check - hoping the recipient would decide to keep his autograph rather than cash it! 2. The first smartphone - invented by IBM in 1994 - could send and receive faxes. 3. The blood of western fence lizards kills Lyme disease!

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CARTOON 10-11-2018

John Graziano, October 11, 2018

The blood of western fence lizards kills Lyme disease!

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1. Steven Spielberg has been thanked in more Academy Awards acceptance speeches than God. 2. Mount Everest climbers burn up to 20,000 calories on the day they reach the summit. 3. The bald eagle on U.S. currency is based on a real bird named Peter who lived at the Philadelphia Mint until 1836.

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CARTOON 10-10-2018

John Graziano, October 10, 2018

Steven Spielberg has been thanked in more Academy Awards acceptance speeches than God.

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1. While 75 percent of the women aboard the Titanic escaped alive, only 20 percent of the men survived. 2. Turf grass covers more of the United States than corn. 3. The oncomouse was developed by scientists at Harvard to develop tumors - the first animal to be patented in the United States!

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CARTOON 10-09-2018

John Graziano, October 9, 2018

Turf grass covers more of the United States than corn.

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