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    • 1. Just days after the release of her October 2022 album "Midnights," Taylor Swift claimed all top 10 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart - she's the first artist to ever do so! 2. The cat Marlon Brando pets in the opening scene of "The Godfather" was unplanned - it was a stray the director found in the studio just before filming! 3. "Mary Poppins" songwriter Robert Sherman was inspired to write "A Spoonful of Sugar" after a doctor used a sugar cube to give Sherman's son his polio vaccine.

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British Man Reels in Giant Goldfish Weighing Nearly 70 Pounds

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CARTOON 05-24-2022

Whales can have regional dialects.

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1. On Venus, the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. 2. Students at Northern Illinois University created a paper snowflake in March 2022 that measured more than 44 feet wide! 3. Whales can have regional dialects.
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CARTOON 12-02-2022

1. Research suggests that some animals avoid power lines because the wires glow and give off flashes of UV light. 2. In 2020, the U.S. Library of Congress chose to preserve "Shrek" in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." 3. One reason most dogs love squeaky toys is because the noise resembles the sound of injured prey!

CARTOON 12-01-2022

1. Just days after the release of her October 2022 album "Midnights," Taylor Swift claimed all top 10 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart - she's the first artist to ever do so! 2. The cat Marlon Brando pets in the opening scene of "The Godfather" was unplanned - it was a stray the director found in the studio just before filming! 3. "Mary Poppins" songwriter Robert Sherman was inspired to write "A Spoonful of Sugar" after a doctor used a sugar cube to give Sherman's son his polio vaccine.

CARTOON 11-30-2022

1. Actor Henry Cavill initially missed director Zack Snyder's phone call about starring as Superman in "Man of Steel" because he was too busy playing "World of Warcraft." 2. In 1999, hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account by using the password "eh." 3. In the U.S., ransomware payments can be tax-deductible!

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