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    • 1. To raise money for a local charity, more than 230 skiers and snowboarders took to the slopes on December 5, 2021, in Newry, Maine, in Santa Claus outfits. 2. Flying fish can reach speeds of 37 mph underwater before launching themselves out and gliding as far as 655 feet! 3. Another word for umbrella is "bumbershoot."

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    • 1. Thanks to a mistake on a 1783 map, Minnesota's northwest angle is located inside Canada. 2. Faced with flooded streets and unable to find a boat, Akash Kunjumon and his bride Aishwarya floated to their wedding venue in Thalavady, India, inside a giant aluminum cooking pot! 3. During the Middle Ages, sick Europeans drank medicine made with distilled human skulls. 4. While balancing a ball on his head, 13-year-old Chinonso Eche of Nigeria bounced a soccer ball on his knees 1,000 times - in less than 8 minutes!

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    • 1. Rodrigo Romero Saldivar of Puebla, Mexico, has a still-growing collection of 1,230 soccer balls. 2. In November 2021, a grateful customer at the Omaha Bakery in Bellevue, Nebraska, left a $2,000 tip for a $5 order of turnovers. 3. When New Yorker Ellen Frey-Wouter died at age 88 in 2017, she left $300,000 in her will to her two cats, Troy and Tiger.

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CARTOON 12-08-2019

Despite its "Sunshine State" nickname, Florida is not the sunniest U.S. state - it's Arizona!

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John Graziano John Graziano — December 8, 2019
1. Despite its "Sunshine State" nickname, Florida is not the sunniest U.S. state - it's Arizona! 2. Elvis Presley made his first record at the age of 18. It was a gift for his mother and cost just $4! 3. The sacred Uluru - Ayers Rock - in Australia, rises 1,142 feet above the ground, but it is estimated that more than 1.5 miles of the rock extend underground! 4. In 1992, a shipping crate fell overboard spilling 28,000 rubber ducks into the ocean - it took 20 years for them all to wash ashore!
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CARTOON 01-17-2021

1. To raise money for a local charity, more than 230 skiers and snowboarders took to the slopes on December 5, 2021, in Newry, Maine, in Santa Claus outfits. 2. Flying fish can reach speeds of 37 mph underwater before launching themselves out and gliding as far as 655 feet! 3. Another word for umbrella is "bumbershoot."

CARTOON 01-16-2022

1. Thanks to a mistake on a 1783 map, Minnesota's northwest angle is located inside Canada. 2. Faced with flooded streets and unable to find a boat, Akash Kunjumon and his bride Aishwarya floated to their wedding venue in Thalavady, India, inside a giant aluminum cooking pot! 3. During the Middle Ages, sick Europeans drank medicine made with distilled human skulls. 4. While balancing a ball on his head, 13-year-old Chinonso Eche of Nigeria bounced a soccer ball on his knees 1,000 times - in less than 8 minutes!

CARTOON 01-15-2022

1. Rodrigo Romero Saldivar of Puebla, Mexico, has a still-growing collection of 1,230 soccer balls. 2. In November 2021, a grateful customer at the Omaha Bakery in Bellevue, Nebraska, left a $2,000 tip for a $5 order of turnovers. 3. When New Yorker Ellen Frey-Wouter died at age 88 in 2017, she left $300,000 in her will to her two cats, Troy and Tiger.

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