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CARTOON 10-08-2019

Lethologica is the word used to describe the phenomenon of forgetting a word!

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John Graziano John Graziano — October 8, 2019
1. Lethologica is the word used to describe the phenomenon of forgetting a word! 2. Cockroaches have their own neighborhoods. Roaches that live close together have the same genetic makeup! 3. Stolen from an Ohio library in 1968, a copy of Life magazine with The Beatles on the cover was returned 50 years later with $100 to cover late fees! Submitted by Dan Paulun, W. Lafayette, OH.

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CARTOON 01-26-2020

1. In the U.K., attaching a postage stamp to an envelope upside-down is illegal! 2. When Katie the border collie went missing, Carole King of Deer Park, Washington, quit her job and spent 57 days searching for her - Katie has since made a full recovery! 3. According to a German court ruling, hangovers classify as an official illness in Germany! 4. On September 21, 2019, nine-year-old Kade Lovell of St. Cloud, Minnesota, took a wrong turn during the St. Francis Franny Flyer 5k Run and won first place in the 10k instead!

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!

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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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