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    • 1. Rich Farmland can have as many as 1,750,000 earthworms per acre. On a dairy farm, worms would outweigh the livestock! 2. An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire measuring 50 miles! 3. A giraffe heart can measure more than two feet long!

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    • 1. Special editions of Monopoly - with real money, a file, compass and map of local safe houses - were created in 1941 for WWII POWS in hopes of helping them escape. 2. A mother platypus is able to nurse her young, yet she does not possess nipples! 3. There are images of yo-yos in ancient Egyptian temples!

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    • 1. Sliced bread was banned by the U.S. government at the height of WWII. 2. Falcons are more closely related to parrots than hawks or eagles. 3. The first mobile phone call was placed in 1946 with a phone - plus equipment - weighing 80 pounds!

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Why We Should Thank Sherlock Holmes For The Invention Of Forensic Geology

Taking Chances On A Rigged Roulette Wheel

Rigged Roulette Wheel

The Origins Of FBI Profiling

FBI Profiling

CARTOON 04-18-2021

1. While filming the 1997 movie "Batman and Robin," Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze costume leaked battery acid into his mouth! 2. Beef carpaccio - an Italian dish consisting of red, raw meat - is named after Renaissance painter Vittore Carpaccio, famous for vibrant reds! 3. Polar bears and penguins will never meet in the wild because they live at opposite ends of the earth! 4. Gilpin Family Whisky is made from the sugar-concentrated urine of diabetics!

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CARTOON 02-27-2021

Owls don't have eyeballs - they have eye tubes.


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John Graziano John Graziano — February 27, 2021
1. Who? Owls don't have eyeballs - they have eye tubes. 2. While exploring a lava tube on Mauna Loa, photographer Kawika Singson found two rusty, undetonated bombs from a failed attempt in 1935 to divert the volcanos lava flow. Submitted by Nate Westbury, Minneapolis, MN. 3. In 2003, a New York woman found a painting in a trash pile and it turned out to be worth $1 million dollars! Submitted by Nate Westbury, Minneapolis, MN.
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CARTOON 04-22-2021

1. Rich Farmland can have as many as 1,750,000 earthworms per acre. On a dairy farm, worms would outweigh the livestock! 2. An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire measuring 50 miles! 3. A giraffe heart can measure more than two feet long!

CARTOON 04-21-2021

1. Special editions of Monopoly - with real money, a file, compass and map of local safe houses - were created in 1941 for WWII POWS in hopes of helping them escape. 2. A mother platypus is able to nurse her young, yet she does not possess nipples! 3. There are images of yo-yos in ancient Egyptian temples!

CARTOON 04-20-2021

1. Sliced bread was banned by the U.S. government at the height of WWII. 2. Falcons are more closely related to parrots than hawks or eagles. 3. The first mobile phone call was placed in 1946 with a phone - plus equipment - weighing 80 pounds!

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  1. Anonymous
    March 1, 2021 at 8:05 pm — Reply

    I never knew that carrots were bad for rabbits!

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