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Cartoon 02-06-2016

A bilingual person can be dyslexic in one language, but not in the other.

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John Graziano John Graziano — February 6, 2016
As a prank, Naval dentist, Jack Mallory inscribed “Remember Pearl Harbor” in Morse code into the false teeth of imprisoned Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo. -------------------- A bilingual person can be dyslexic in one language, but not in the other. -------------------- Gandhavalla Umashankar of Andhra Pradesh, India, spent two months building a model of the Eiffel Tower using 600 pencil leads!
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CARTOON 11-30-2023

1. "OutHorse Your Email," an Icelandic tourism campaign, provides out-of-office messages written by Icelandic horses on a car-sized keyboard. 2. Flyin' Solo! In 2023, after an 18-hour delay, Phil Stringer enjoyed an entire American Airlines flight to himself! 3. Massive sand dunes surround the 100-resident-strong desert oasis of Huacachina, Peru, attracting tens of thousands of tourists annually!

CARTOON 11-29-2023

1. Sir Paul McCartney helped engineer a new Beatles song using artificial intelligence to isolate John Lennon's vocals from an old recording. 2. Musician Allister Brown of Lisburn, Northern Ireland, played the drums for a record-breaking 150 hours straight! 3. Cheers! The ceilings and walls of McGuire's Irish Pub in Pensacola, Florida, are plastered with over $1 million worth of bills!

CARTOON 11-28-2023

1. The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly. 2. For the most elaborate burials, Egyptians used more than 4,000 square feet of linen during the mummification process! 3. Archaeologists fear opening the 2,200-year-old tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, because of potential booby traps!

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