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    • 1. In 1786, prior to becoming U.S. presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson visited Shakespeare's house together and chipped off a piece of his chair as a souvenir. 2. Every three months, the IRS releases the "Quarterly Publication of Individuals , Who Have Chosen To Expatriate" - a list of people who willfully revoked their U.S. citizenship. 3. In 1928, Henry Ford turned part of Brazil's Amazon Rainforest into a rubber plantation and factory town called Fordlandia. It was a failure and abandoned in 1945.

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CARTOON 01-20-2023

Streets are almost always wet in movies.

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1. Stephen King created the Dollar Baby Program, which allows lesser known filmmakers to purchase the rights to one of his short stories for only $1! The films can't be commercially distributed, and a copy of each film must be commercially distributed, and a copy of each film must be sent to King himself. 2. Around 700 third-class passengers aboard the Titanic had to share just two bathtubs. 3. Streets are almost always wet in movies.
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CARTOON 02-08-2023

1. During a riot in Northern Ireland in 2010, a police officer defused the situation by playing ice cream truck music. 2. The national flag of the Philippines is flown upside down with the red stripe on top during times of war. 3. The word "graffiti" is actually the plural form of "graffito."

CARTOON 02-07-2023

1. In 1786, prior to becoming U.S. presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson visited Shakespeare's house together and chipped off a piece of his chair as a souvenir. 2. Every three months, the IRS releases the "Quarterly Publication of Individuals , Who Have Chosen To Expatriate" - a list of people who willfully revoked their U.S. citizenship. 3. In 1928, Henry Ford turned part of Brazil's Amazon Rainforest into a rubber plantation and factory town called Fordlandia. It was a failure and abandoned in 1945.

CARTOON 02-06-2023

1. Mr. Fred Rogers poured the wax for the 100 billionth Crayola crayon. 2. Environmental officials in Wales had to ask Harry Potter fans to stop leaving items on the beach where there is a makeshift grave for the character Dobby after hundreds of socks were laid there in honor of the fictional elf. 3. The town of Nördlingen, Germany, was built inside a 15-million-year-old meteor crater and is embedded with 72,000 tons of tiny diamonds.

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