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    • 1. "Formication" is the scientific term for the sensation that small insects are crawling over your skin! 2. In 2008, a 13-year-old boy in Florida, was arrested for "excessive farting" during class! 3. In 1897, Austrian surgeon Carl Nicoladoni performed the first toe-to-thumb surgery by connecting a man's hand to his foot at the base of the great toe. After spending several weeks bent over during the connection to improve the success rate, the surgeon cut the toe from the foot!

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CARTOON 12-04-2019

Ron Sveden inhaled a pea and it sprouted in his lung!

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John Graziano John Graziano — December 4, 2019
1. Melody, a dalmatian from Australia, gave birth to a record 19 puppies in February 2019. 2. Ron Sveden inhaled a pea and it sprouted in his lung! 3. Goat eyes have rectangular pupils!
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CARTOON 02-26-2020

1. Tom's Diner in Denver, Colorado, charges customers a fee of 38 cents for asking a "stupid question." 2. Held annually, the Hadaka Matsuri, or Naked Festival, in Japan see thousands of men strip down to a single loin cloth and compete in challenges for good-luck tokens. 3. In the Ceremony of Quit Rents, the city of London continues to pay a yearly rent on two pieces of land leased from the queen in 1211 - one sharp knife, one blunt knife, six horseshoes and 61 nails! Yet no one is exactly sure where the properties are anymore!

CARTOON 02-25-2020

1. Daniel Boria from Calgary, Canada, was arrested for "dangerous operation of an aircraft" in 2015 after tying more than 100 helium balloons to a lawn chair and flying over the city! 2. The first form of plastic surgery was "paraffin wax" rhinoplasty where a surgeon would inject hot liquid wax into the nasal cavity and mold it into the desired shape! 3. It takes about 4,000 double folds before a dollar bill will tear!

CARTOON 02-24-2020

1. "Formication" is the scientific term for the sensation that small insects are crawling over your skin! 2. In 2008, a 13-year-old boy in Florida, was arrested for "excessive farting" during class! 3. In 1897, Austrian surgeon Carl Nicoladoni performed the first toe-to-thumb surgery by connecting a man's hand to his foot at the base of the great toe. After spending several weeks bent over during the connection to improve the success rate, the surgeon cut the toe from the foot!

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