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    • 1. Australian firehawks intentionally spread fire by carrying burning branches from one location to another to smoke out their prey! 2. Due to 2023's record heart in Arizona, 100-year-old saguaro cacti started collapsing. 3. Missouri's Kyle Scheele spent 2 1/2 years and thousands of dollars crafting a 16-foot-tall, 30-foot-long cardboard Viking ship - featuring 50 pounds of hot glue! - To burn Norse-funeral style.

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    • 1. Chhouk, an 11-year-old Asian elephant in Cambodia, was fitted with a 44-pound prosthetic foot crafted from recycled rubber and Velcro straps! 2. Since 1953, surgeon Dr. Mambet Mamakeev has treated more than 100,000 patients and performed over 30,000 surgical interventions. 3. In 2023, scientists from Anzhen Hospital in Beijing, China, discovered microplastics used in food packaging inside the human heart!

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    • 1. In 2023, Indian martial artist Naveen Kumar smashed 273 walnuts with his forehead in one minute - nearly 4.5 walnuts a second! 2. While most birds enjoy nuts and seeds, conures in captivity love peanuts! 3. At Tokyo's Take-Noko Cafe, guests can order silkworm shell sashimi or cricket curry!

      CARTOON 09-20-2023

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The Hambone Award: The Most Unusual Pet Insurance Claims Of 2023

Vet with dog and cat in clinic

Roar Into ‘Survivor’ Season 45 With 15 Fiji Fun Facts

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Under Pressure With Power Washing Artist Sam Ward

Sam Ward with pressure washer.

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CARTOON 11-16-2021

Octopuses have brains shaped like donuts.

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1. Octopuses have brains shaped like donuts. 2. While renovating his home in New South Wales, Australia, Matt Streatfeild discovered a glass milk bottle between his walls with a 47-year-old message from construction workers dated April 5, 1974. 3. Bill Fischer of Fargo, North Dakota, returned home from a trip to find a squirrel had stuffed his pickup truck with 42 gallons of walnuts! Submitted by Audra Ely, Ocean City, MD.
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CARTOON 02-08-2023

1. During a riot in Northern Ireland in 2010, a police officer defused the situation by playing ice cream truck music. 2. The national flag of the Philippines is flown upside down with the red stripe on top during times of war. 3. The word "graffiti" is actually the plural form of "graffito."

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.

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