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STRANGE

BUT

TRUE

By Lucie Winborne

I chiro Suzuki, limelight” comes from the early decrease to consumers distracted
baseball’s all-time
days of theater, when spotlights
by their phones in checkout lines,
hits leader, learned
were produced by directing
where most gum purchases are
Spanish solely for
the purpose of a flame at calcium oxide, or made.
quicklime.

trash-talking opponents. In 1922, Americans consumed
According to the market research around 1,000,000 Eskimo Pies
During World War II, French firm Euromonitor International, a day, which not only hiked up
actress/dancer Leslie Caron’s worldwide chewing gum sales the cost of cocoa beans by 50%,
wealthy family suffered such have declined by 15% since 2007, but also single-handedly lifted
severe financial reversals that she the same year that the iPhone Ecuador’s economy out of a
was once forced to make shoes came out. The firm attributed the depression.
out of her grandmother’s opera
gloves. Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-
“ respect leads to self-discipline. When you
Until 1937, it was illegal for men
to be topless in the U.S., even on have both firmly under your belt, that’s real
beaches. power.” -- Clint Eastwood

Is there a “junk drawer” in your
house? If so, you’re in good
company, as a whopping 80% of
Americans have at least one, but
the average household actually
boasts three. The most common
items found in these catchalls are
super glue (57%), writing utensils
(also 57%) and duct tape (51%).
What’s in yours?

Gary Kremen, the founder of
Match.com, one of the world’s
largest and most popular online
dating websites, lost his girlfriend
to a guy she met on Match.com.

The origin of the phrase “in the