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CARTOON 12-19-2021

A missing apostrophe in a Facebook post landed an Australian real estate agent in defamation court.

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1. Jonathan Young of Gulf Shores, Alabama, completed 15 chin-ups in one minute while wearing a 100-pound pack. 2. Karen Mahoney and Brian Ray of Cadyville, New York, held their 2021 wedding at the U.S.-Canadian border so that the bride's parents and grandmother could attend despite Covid-19 restrictions. 3. Grammar Matter's - A missing apostrophe in a Facebook post landed an Australian real estate agent in defamation court. Submitted by John Corcoran, Orlando, Fl. 4. On September 26, 2021, a group of food enthusiasts in New York known as the 315 Foodies assembled a 315-foot-long charcuterie board.
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CARTOON 01-27-2023

1. When Ohio man Zach Arnwine and his fiancée found a bunch of FedEx packages dumped on the side of the highway, they delivered them themselves! 2. Some car manufacturers employ odor engineers to make sure their new vehicles smell as good as possible. 3. Ford's Theatre, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865, has vowed to never perform "our American Cousin," which was the play Lincoln was watching when he was shot by John Wilkes Booth.

CARTOON 01-26-2023

1. When composer Albert Von Tilzer and lyricist Jack Norworth wrote the song "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" in 1908, neither of them had ever gone to a baseball game! 2. New York City's Central Park is larger than Vatican City! 3. The bottom-third of the Washington Monument is a different color than the top because the project ran out of funding and sat unfinished for 25 years before it was completed with marble from a different quarry!

CARTOON 01-25-2023

1. The corpse lily, Rafflesia arnoldii, is the largest flower in the world, growing up to 3 feet wide and weighing up to 15 pounds! 2. The condition that causes people to sneeze when suddenly exposed to bright light is called autosomal dominant compelling helio-ophthalmic outburst, or "achoo" syndrome. 3. About 8 percent of human DNA comes from viruses!

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