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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. Cats can be allergic to humans! 2. The Catholic Church officially acknowledged the theory of evolution in 1950. 3. South Korea spent more than a million dollars producing kimchi that was safe to take into space. 4. The average person's heart will beat more than three billion times over the course of their life!

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CARTOON 06-09-2019

John Graziano, June 9, 2019

Cats can be allergic to humans!

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1. In 2000, hundreds of tiny silver fish rained down on Great Yarmouth, England. 2. Hitler's nephew, William Patrick Hitler, fought against him in the U.S. Navy. 3. Leopard slugs mate in midair - dangling from a rope of mucus!

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CARTOON 06-08-2019

John Graziano, June 8, 2019

Hitler’s nephew, William Patrick Hitler, fought against him in the U.S. Navy.

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1. Rockfish can live for more than 200 years! 2. Uranus is almost 20 times farther from the Sun than the Earth is! 3. In the Middle Ages, Europeans attempted to cure muscle pain by drinking powdered gold.

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CARTOON 06-07-2019

John Graziano, June 7, 2019

Rockfish can live for more than 200 years!

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1. The world's farthest point from the sea - located more than 1,553 miles from any ocean - is the Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility in Northern China. 2. Your nose gets warmer when you lie! 3. Between 1873 and 1880, some U.S. doctors gave patients transfusions of milk instead of blood.

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CARTOON 06-06-2019

John Graziano, June 6, 2019

Your nose gets warmer when you lie!

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1. In medieval Japan, dentists extracted teeth with their bare hands! 2. Galileo went blind studying the Sun through telescopes. 3. In some Andean cultures, frog juice is believed to cure a variety of conditions.

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CARTOON 06-05-2019

John Graziano, June 5, 2019

Galileo went blind studying the Sun through telescopes.

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1. Popular in Kyrgyzstan, kumis is a mildly alcoholic drink made from the fermented milk of a horse. 2. More than 30 billion pounds of potatoes are grown in the United States each year! 3. Countess du Barry - mistress of King Louis XV - invented the fish bowl!

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CARTOON 06-04-2019

John Graziano, June 4, 2019

More than 30 billion pounds of potatoes are grown in the United States each year!

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1. Peter the Great practiced dentistry on his subjects. 2. The technical term for hairs standing on end is piloerection. 3. The most isolated inhabited island in the world, Tristan da Cunha, was granted a postal code in 2005, but its residents see a mail ship only once a year!

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CARTOON 06-03-2019

John Graziano, June 3, 2019

The technical term for hairs standing on end is piloerection.

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1. The U.S. Library of Congress paid $10 million for the only surviving copy of a wall map of the world printed in 1507 - it was the first to use the name "America." 2. The comic sans font was designed by Vincent Connare in 1995, but even he isn't a fan! He only ever used it once, to pen a letter explaining how disappointed he was in his service provider. 3. 213 meters is the greatest height from which a chicken egg has been dropped without breaking! 4. Hippos secrete an oily reddish fluid called "blood sweat" from their skin that's used as a moisturizer, water repellent and antibiotic!

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CARTOON 06-02-2019

John Graziano, June 2, 2019

213 meters is the greatest height from which a chicken egg has been dropped without breaking!

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1. In the 1600s, hair balls were placed in drinks to absorb any arsenic that may have slipped in! 2. During a 1969 rainstorm, golf balls fell from the sky onto the town of Punta Gorda, Florida. 3. Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that woke him up by rubbing his feet!

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CARTOON 06-01-2019

John Graziano, June 1, 2019

Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that woke him up by rubbing his feet!

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1. A drone called "The Goosebuster" is used to broadcast gray wolf howls and scare geese away from the beaches of the Ottawa River in Canada. 2. Cinnamon was part of the ancient Egyptian embalming process! 3. In 2014, two research scientists in Antarctica successfully matched on Tinder®!

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CARTOON 05-31-2019

John Graziano, May 31, 2019

Cinnamon was part of the ancient Egyptian embalming process!

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