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The Hair-Raising Truth About Troll Dolls

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CARTOON 02-22-2017

The average woman uses her height in lipstick every five years.

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John Graziano John Graziano — February 22, 2017
If you invite Disney's Mickey and Minnie Mouse to your wedding, they will personally respond to the invitation!------------------- The world's lightest mammal, the Kitti's Hog-Nosed Bat, weighs about as much as two M&M's candies.-------------------- The average woman uses her height in lipstick every five years.
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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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