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CARTOON 12-06-2019

The Hawaiian alphabet only has 13 letters - five vowels and eight consonants!

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John Graziano John Graziano — December 6, 2019
1. The Modern Toilet Restaurant in Taiwan serves food in miniature toilet bowls! 2. The Hawaiian alphabet only has 13 letters - five vowels and eight consonants! 3. In 18th-century Paris, it was fashionable to wear hats and umbrellas with lightning rods attached!
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CARTOON 02-19-2020

1. With a melting point of 85°F, you can turn a solid cube of gallium into a liquid just by holding it in your hand! 2. Hosted annually at the Takhini Hot Springs in Canada, the International Hair Freezing Contest sees visitors shape their hair into outrageous styles by dipping it in the water and freezing it in the -4°F air! 3. During earthquakes, water vaporizes inside faults, turning it to gold!

CARTOON 02-18-2020

1. Sherry Neuharth, owner of Craizy Daisy's Gourmet Popcorn in Yankton, South Dakota, lost her wedding ring while she was packaging more that 100 bags of caramel corn - it was sent back to her one month later! 2. The waterwheel plant is an aquatic version of the Venus flytrap - it eats mosquito larvae, eel worms and small crustaceans. 3. On January 6, 2020, a group of students from Bullock Creek High School in Midland County, Michigan, spent 16 hours creating a more than 16-foot-tall pyramid using 27,434 rolls of toilet paper!

CARTOON 02-17-2020

1. What do former presidents George W. Bush, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan have in common? They were all once cheerleaders! 2. Located in the Sahara Desert, the world's longest conveyor belt system is 61 miles long - and can be seen from space! 3. In the 125-year history of the New York Public Library, "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats has been checked out the most - more than 485,583 times!

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