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    • 1. In 1913, Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers became the first baseball player to earn a five-figure salary at $12,000 a year. Submitted by Richard Gibson, Lafayette, LA. 2. In 2019, a group of salmon farmers off the coast of Canada's Vancouver Island rescued a bald eagle from the deadly grip of an octopus! 3. Archaeologists in Peru recently discovered a more than 120-foot-long, 2,000-year-old geoglyph in the shape of a cat! Submitted by Nate Westbury, Minneapolis, MN.

      CARTOON 11-25-2020

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    • 1. No grass grows around the gravestones of bank-robbing lovers Bonnie and Clyde. Submitted by Richard Gibson, Lafayette, LA. 2. Italian acrobat Nicolo Saverino, AKA "Mutant Man," has 70% of his body covered in black tattoos. The body modification enthusiast also has facial piercings, horn implants, notched ears and a split tongue! Submitted by John Corcoran, Orlando, FL. 3. Whirligig water beetles have two pairs of eyes, allowing them to see above and below the water surface at the same time.

      CARTOON 10-24-2020

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    • 1. The first name of U.S. President Cleveland was not Grover, it was Stephen! 2. While cleaning out a shark that had died in their net, a group of fishermen in Indonesia were shocked to find a pure white cyclops shark fetus! 3. Walruses use their tusks to drag themselves out of the water and onto the ice.

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CARTOON 10-16-2016

Injured Viking warriors drank onion soup to determine the seriousness of their wounds—if onion could be smelled through the wounds, it meant they were fatal!

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John Graziano John Graziano — October 16, 2016
The Russian Village of Shoyna is constantly bombarded with moving sand dunes that are able to bury houses in a single night! -------------------- British furniture designer Gigi Barker devised a range of flesh-colored leather sofas and chairs that look, feel, and even smell like human skin! -------------------- An elderly couple from Essex, England, regularly allowed their cat to sleep in a ceramic bowl—which was later discovered to date back to the Ming Dynasty of 15th-century China! -------------------- Injured Viking warriors drank onion soup to determine the seriousness of their wounds—if onion could be smelled through the wounds, it meant they were fatal!
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CARTOON 11-25-2020

1. In 1913, Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers became the first baseball player to earn a five-figure salary at $12,000 a year. Submitted by Richard Gibson, Lafayette, LA. 2. In 2019, a group of salmon farmers off the coast of Canada's Vancouver Island rescued a bald eagle from the deadly grip of an octopus! 3. Archaeologists in Peru recently discovered a more than 120-foot-long, 2,000-year-old geoglyph in the shape of a cat! Submitted by Nate Westbury, Minneapolis, MN.

CARTOON 10-24-2020

1. No grass grows around the gravestones of bank-robbing lovers Bonnie and Clyde. Submitted by Richard Gibson, Lafayette, LA. 2. Italian acrobat Nicolo Saverino, AKA "Mutant Man," has 70% of his body covered in black tattoos. The body modification enthusiast also has facial piercings, horn implants, notched ears and a split tongue! Submitted by John Corcoran, Orlando, FL. 3. Whirligig water beetles have two pairs of eyes, allowing them to see above and below the water surface at the same time.

CARTOON 11-23-2020

1. The first name of U.S. President Cleveland was not Grover, it was Stephen! 2. While cleaning out a shark that had died in their net, a group of fishermen in Indonesia were shocked to find a pure white cyclops shark fetus! 3. Walruses use their tusks to drag themselves out of the water and onto the ice.

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