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    • 1. In 2012, Austrian Felix Baumgartner became the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound, falling at more than 830 mph. 2. On April 13, 2022, Fatou at the Berlin Zoo in Germany, the oldest known gorilla in the world, turned 65. 3. The average person in the Netherlands gets 8 hours and 5 minutes of sleep per night.

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    • 1. Sperm whales only have teeth on their lower jaw - their upper jaw contains sockets the teeth fit into. 2. In 1999, Stephen King was almost killed after being struck by a van, and soon afterward bought the vehicle that hit him! 3. During World War I, trained mercy dogs would seek out wounded soldiers on the battlefield and provide them with first-aid supplies or comfort in their final moments.

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CARTOON 01-26-2022

To conserve oxygen on deep dives, a blue whale's heart slows to just two beats per minute.

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1. Pink Floyd's 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon" spent 14 years straight in the Billboard Top 200, finally exiting in July 1988, 736 weeks after it debuted on the album chart. 2. German circus performer Hannibal Hellmurto had part of his earlobes cut off after over-stretching them to a length of 2.4 inches. He then pickled the flesh and sold it at auction for £460. 3. To conserve oxygen on deep dives, a blue whale's heart slows to just two beats per minute.
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CARTOON 05-27-2022

1. In 2012, Austrian Felix Baumgartner became the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound, falling at more than 830 mph. 2. On April 13, 2022, Fatou at the Berlin Zoo in Germany, the oldest known gorilla in the world, turned 65. 3. The average person in the Netherlands gets 8 hours and 5 minutes of sleep per night.

CARTOON 05-26-2022

1. Sperm whales only have teeth on their lower jaw - their upper jaw contains sockets the teeth fit into. 2. In 1999, Stephen King was almost killed after being struck by a van, and soon afterward bought the vehicle that hit him! 3. During World War I, trained mercy dogs would seek out wounded soldiers on the battlefield and provide them with first-aid supplies or comfort in their final moments.

CARTOON 05-25-2022

1. Trilobites living up to 541 million years ago in what is now Australia may have been the first-ever cannibals. 2. If you typed for eight hours a day at a rate of 60 words per minute, it would still take you about 50 years to type the entire human genome. 3. If the sun suddenly blew up, we wouldn't know until 8 minutes and 20 seconds after the fact, since that's how long it takes or sunlight to reach earth.

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