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STRANGE

BUT

TRUE

By Lucie Winborne

T he “Escape from dialed 999 to report a burglar, Over the course of several
Alcatraz Marathon,”
Thomas Duffy, outside her home
decades, African American
in England.
blues musician Daryl Davis
created in 1980,
is an annual event
made a point of befriending KKK
designed to show It is illegal to ride an ugly horse in members and questioning them
that it is indeed possible to Wilbur, Washington. about their beliefs. As of 2017,
survive an escape from Alcatraz, 200 of those Klansmen had given
and includes a 1.5-mile swim to Of the roughly 300 million tons of up their robes as a result.
San Francisco, an 18-mile bike plastic produced each year, half
ride and an 8-mile run. consists of single-use items. People who worked at soda
fountains were called soda jerks
In the seventh century B.C., the In France, citizens are due to the classic jerking motion
North African Berbers played a automatically registered to vote they used to pump soda water.
soccer-like game as a fertility rite. when they turn 18 years old.

Iceland had a cat reality show It takes a moment to tell someone you love them,
called -- wait for it -- “Keeping Up “ but it takes a lifetime to prove it.”
With the Kattarshians,” in which -- Erich Fromm
four lucky kittens lived together
in a furnished house and were
filmed around the clock.

Minority children make up 65%
of all non-family abductions.

Some police forces purposely
assign at least one woman
to their SWAT teams so their
male counterparts will have a
“den mother” to counteract
some of the men’s more violent
tendencies.

The first arrest resulting from
an emergency call occurred on
July 8, 1937, at 4:20 a.m., when
the wife of John Stanley Beard