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STRANGE

BUT

TRUE

By Lucie Winborne

U nlike some During the pre-WWII drafts, an human genome is responsible
illiterate gentleman hoping to
genocides in which
for the development of both
schizophrenia and bipolar
victims could
avoid military service asked his
sometimes avoid
persecution by wife to write the draft board disorder.
and explain how much he was
converting to another religion, needed at home. The plan The first female golfer was Mary,
Nazi Germany generally defined backfired when his lady instead Queen of Scots (1542--1567).
Jews by ancestry rather than requested that her husband be
personal belief. Under the taken because he was a “no- In the U.S., graduating nurses
Nuremberg Laws, a person’s good” alcoholic who didn’t help take an oath called the
classification depended largely around the house. Nightingale Pledge, named after
on the religious affiliation of Florence Nightingale and adapted
parents and grandparents, so Geneticists believe that the from the Hippocratic Oath taken
conversion to Christianity usually same segment of DNA in the by doctors.
did not exempt someone of
Jewish ancestry from anti-Jewish When obstacles arise, you change your direction to
persecution. “ reach your goal; you do not change your decision to

An Ohio State University study get there.” -- Zig Ziglar
found that women who reported
stress in the previous 24 hours
burned 104 fewer calories than
nonstressed women after a high-
fat meal.

Beer is the third-most popular
drink on Earth, after water and
tea.

Turtles can see well underwater,
but on land they are nearsighted.

In one of his occasional efforts to
improve public relations, Chicago
gangster Al Capone opened a
soup kitchen during the Great
Depression.