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                             STRANGE



                                          BUT



                                       TRUE


                             By Lucie Winborne




             Y          ou thought it was     And speaking of frugality -- a man  or 11% of the population, thinks
                        hard to get into
                                              wore 60 shirts and nine pairs of
                                                                                 HTML is actually a disease.
                        Harvard University?
                                              jeans on an 11.5-hour flight from
                        Try getting hired
                        by Walmart! The       China to Africa because he didn’t  Britain’s Secret Intelligence
                                                                                 Service once hacked an al-Qaida
                                              want to pay the extra baggage
           former institution’s admittance    fee.                               website and replaced bomb
           rate of 4.5% still beats that of                                      instructions with a cupcake
           the store chain, which has an      Cows moo with regional accents.    recipe.
           employee acceptance rate of just
           2.6%.                              According to a 2014 study          The Supreme Court has its own
                                              published by the Los Angeles       private basketball court.
           “Americanha” is a word used by     Times, one in nine Americans,
           Nigerians to refer to folks who
           visit the U.S. and then put on            Those who contemplate the beauty of the
           American airs when they return.    “      earth find reserves of strength that will


           Lake Superior State University in         endure as long as life lasts.”
           Michigan offers a unicorn hunting                                                -- Rachel Carson
           license.

           The town of Dorset, Minnesota,
           elects a new mayor every two
           years by drawing names from a
           hat, and in 2015, that honor went
           to 3-year-old Robert Tufts. His
           laudable motto: “Being nice and
           no poopy talk.”


           An art collector once paid
           $10,000 for a “non-visible”
           sculpture created by actor James
           Franco. What did she get for her
           moolah? Well, since the artwork
           was billed as an “endless tank of
           oxygen,” we’d say ... air, which
           most of us can find a lot cheaper.
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