THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2019
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ANSWERS
STRANGE BUT TRUE
* Former Marquette
University basketball coach Al
McGuire who said: “The world
is run by C students.”
* There were no armadillos
in Texas until the 1840s.
* Many people think that
adding cream to coffee makes
it colder, but that’s only
partially correct. As it turns out,
after cooling the coffee a little
bit, the cream forms a layer of fat
molecules across the surface,
insulating the coffee and keeping
it warmer.
* Only about half the French-
speaking people in the world actu-
ally live in France.
* On average, twins arrive 24
days earlier than babies from
single births.
* It’s been claimed that it was
customary in Austria at one time
for women to wear small dogs
draped about their shoulders for
warmth.
* According to anthropologists,
if you’d never worn shoes, there
would be a larger gap between
your big toe and the rest of
your toes.
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W E E K LY T V B E S T B E T S
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Four be the things I am
wiser to know: idleness,
sorrow, a friend and a foe. Four
be the things I’d be better with-
out: love, curiosity, freckles
and doubt.”
– Dorothy Parker