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CARTOON 06-21-2020

Airplane black boxes are actually orange.

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John Graziano John Graziano — June 21, 2020
1. Married women were banned from watching or even attending the ancient Greek Olympic Games due to males competing in the nude! The penalty for any married woman caught sneaking a peek was execution! 2. Airplane black boxes are actually orange. 3. Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans! 4. In 2000, Madonna sold her mansion to a German shepherd named Gunther IV. Submitted by Dan Paulun, W. Lafayette, OH.
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CARTOON 08-04-2020

1. There are about 20 volcanoes erupting around the world at any given time! 2. There are approximately 350 shapes of pasta! 3. The Statue of Liberty is hit by about 600 bolts of lightning every year!

CARTOON 08-03-2020

1. Gerald Ford's 895-day-long presidency was the shortest in U.S. history for any president who did not die in office. 2. In medieval England, eels were used as currency, specifically for rental agreements. 3. A decree issued by Pope Gregory IX in 1233 raised superstitions about black cats, leading to mass exterminations of the felines and possibly causing an increase in plague-carrying rats!

CARTOON 08-02-2020

1. Japan's Etoni Mama creates intricate meals for her children that look like pop culture characters. These amazing dishes are known as kyaraben! 2. Celebrated by the Malagasy people of Madagascar, "Famadihana" is a tradition that involves exhuming dead ancestors to wrap them in fresh shrouds. But before reburying, the descendants dance with the corpses! 3. During World War II, British intelligence chiefs made bombs out of dead rats to smuggle into Nazi weapon factories. However, the first shipment was intercepted and they were never used. 4. The Beatles song "A Day in the Life" contains a frequency only heard by dogs.

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  1. Christina Emrick
    July 8, 2020 at 3:20 pm — Reply

    Guess a “black box” is easier to see in the wreckage if it’s orange!

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