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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 02-07-2023

1. In 1786, prior to becoming U.S. presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson visited Shakespeare's house together and chipped off a piece of his chair as a souvenir. 2. Every three months, the IRS releases the "Quarterly Publication of Individuals , Who Have Chosen To Expatriate" - a list of people who willfully revoked their U.S. citizenship. 3. In 1928, Henry Ford turned part of Brazil's Amazon Rainforest into a rubber plantation and factory town called Fordlandia. It was a failure and abandoned in 1945.

CARTOON 02-06-2023

1. Mr. Fred Rogers poured the wax for the 100 billionth Crayola crayon. 2. Environmental officials in Wales had to ask Harry Potter fans to stop leaving items on the beach where there is a makeshift grave for the character Dobby after hundreds of socks were laid there in honor of the fictional elf. 3. The town of Nördlingen, Germany, was built inside a 15-million-year-old meteor crater and is embedded with 72,000 tons of tiny diamonds.

CARTOON 02-05-2023

1. Oreo built a doomsday vault in Norway to preserve emergency cookies for future generations! 2. While using his metal detector near Dorset, England, David Board discovered a rare medieval wedding ring worth an estimated $47,000! 3. In 1985 Kentucky, a bear known as "Cocaine Bear" found and consumed 70 pounds of the drug before dying of an overdose. 4. Smell Like An Emperor! Napoleon Bonaparte frequently used a cologne named 4711, which is still made today using the same exact formula.

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