Strange But True: Bob Dylan
By Lucie Winborne
Eastern Russia serves breakfast when western Russia serves dinner.
If you are born blind due to lesions in the brain (congenital cortical blindness), rather than lesions in the eye (congenital peripheral blindness), you apparently can't become schizophrenic.
Words have a lifespan of anywhere between 1,000 and 20,000 years.
While inducting Bob Dylan into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Bruce Springsteen noted that he first heard Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone" in the car with his mother, who liked the music but after a minute looked at her son and said, "That boy can't sing."
The Oscar statue must always appear in an upright, vertical position and cannot be dressed, altered, rotated, stretched or embellished in any way.
Oak trees are more prone to being struck by lightning than any other tree.
A wildlife photographer documented an unlikely duo in northern Finland: a young female gray wolf and a male brown bear that met every night for 10 days. They weren't observed fighting, but roaming, playing and even eating from the same plate.
Broccoli contains more protein per calorie than steak.
On July 26, 2025, Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born from an embryo that had been frozen since May 1994.
North Dakota has the most golf courses per capita out of any state in America.
After the beloved TV series "I Love Lucy" ended, Desi Arnaz offered Vivian Vance (Ethel) and William Frawley (Fred) their own spin-off called "The Mertzes," but Vance declined, primarily because she didn't want to work one-on-one with Frawley. The pair's onscreen chemistry notably didn't mirror their offscreen relationship.
Lint can be used as a highly efficient fire starter.
Thought for the Day: "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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