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CARTOON 01-20-2019

Blood red rain fell from the sky in Kerala, India, in July of 2001.

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John Graziano John Graziano — January 20, 2019
1. Walt Disney World's lost and found department gets over 200 pairs of sunglasses each day! 2. Blood red rain fell from the sky in Kerala, India, in July of 2001. 3. In 2010, the citizens of New Breman, Ohio, baked a 3,699-pound pumpkin pie! 4. Almost all animals take the same amount of time to empty their bladders - about 21 seconds!

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CARTOON 06-10-2023

1. An outside toilet on the shoreline of the Haida Gwaii Archipelago off British Columbia, Canada, has a flush that is "powered by the moon," as the tide washes out the waste twice a day. 2. The school that served as Hill Valley High School in the movie "Back to the Future" was Whittier High, California - Richard Nixon's school from 1928-1930. 3. Traffic in Moscow is so bad that wealthy Russians sometimes hire fake ambulances to beat the jams.

CARTOON 06-09-2023

1. Tattoo artist Monty Richthofen (AKA Maison Hefner), from London, England, runs a project called "My Words, Your Body," where clients allow him to ink motivational quotes of his choice onto their bodies. 2. Freddie Mercury used an upright piano as a headboard for his bed so that he could play tunes that came to him in his dreams. 3. British-born Dominic Johnson-Hill, owner of a souvenir shop in Beijing, China, sells cans of polluted Beijing city air to tourists for $4 each.

CARTOON 06-08-2023

1. Pizza delivery driver Randy DeGregorio, of Manalapan, New Jersey, can fold 18 cardboard pizza boxes in one minute. 2. 18,818: The number of cupcakes assembled in a cupcake tower standing 41.7 ft. tall in a shopping mall in Chennai, India. 3. A shopper at a grocery store in Mineola, New York, saved 20 cents on some Crisco oil in 2019 by using a 36-year-old coupon with no expiration date.

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