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    • 1. On October 12, 2019, Rick "Ormortis" Schreck built a massive Ouija board in Salem, Massachusetts. It measured 3,168 ft, weighed 9,000 lbs and had a 400-lb, 15.5-ft planchette! 2. You have the same odds of being killed by falling out of bed as you do being struck by lightning - 1 in 2 million! 3. New York's Washington Square Park used to be a cemetery - an estimated 20,000 bodies are still interred there!

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CARTOON 07-14-2019

Norway once knighted a king penguin!

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John Graziano John Graziano — July 14, 2019
1. Iceland's revenue from whale watching exceeds all revenue from whaling. 2. The word "television" was coined by scientist Constantin Perskyi in 1900. Its abbreviated form, TV, wasn't recorded until 1948. 3. The small country of Kiribati covers all four hemispheres; the only country in the world to do so! 4. Norway once knighted a king penguin!

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CARTOON 01-25-2020

1. In all the 113,760 frames that make up "101 Dalmatians," there is a total of 6,469,952 spots on all the dogs! 2. The leg bones of bats are so delicate that only two species, the burrowing bat and the vampire bat, are able to walk! 3. Despite being born without arms, Jessica Cox of Tucson, Arizona, became the world's first licensed armless pilot in 2008!

CARTOON 01-24-2020

1. Google® was originally named "Backrub"! 2. Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs. What do they have in common? None of them had a college degree! 3. In Quebec, Canada, human scarecrows are armed with shotguns filled with blanks to scare off geese from a farmer's crops!

CARTOON 01-23-2020

1. On October 12, 2019, Rick "Ormortis" Schreck built a massive Ouija board in Salem, Massachusetts. It measured 3,168 ft, weighed 9,000 lbs and had a 400-lb, 15.5-ft planchette! 2. You have the same odds of being killed by falling out of bed as you do being struck by lightning - 1 in 2 million! 3. New York's Washington Square Park used to be a cemetery - an estimated 20,000 bodies are still interred there!

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John is only the 7th person to take up the pen illustrating the Ripley`s daily cartoon since 1918.

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