Strange But True: Lemon Moon
By Lucie Winborne
The world's tiniest robot is smaller than a grain of salt.
Despite what you see when you gaze at the night sky, the moon's actually shaped like a lemon, with flattened poles and bulges on its near and far sides around its equator.
In Utah, birds have the right of way on a highway.
What's in a name? Well, a casket is a rectangular box with a lid, and a coffin is a six-sided box that's wider at the shoulders and narrower at the feet. In America, caskets are more commonly used than coffins.
On the Titanic, more than 700 third-class passengers had to share just two bathtubs.
Black and orange are the traditional colors of Halloween because the ancient Celts believed black symbolized the "death" of summer and orange represented the fall harvest.
For the film "A Star Is Born," Bradley Cooper spent six months with a dialect coach trying to imitate Sam Elliott's voice, before he knew Elliott would be cast as his brother.
Some female sharks store sperm after mating, potentially holding on to it for years before they're ready to reproduce.
When trick-or-treating began gaining popularity in the 1930s, adults worried that kids "threatening" people with tricks if they didn't get candy would encourage them to become criminals later in life.
The first cigarette lighter was invented three years before the first friction match.
In 1993, a Mexican zoo owner was arrested for illegally purchasing an FBI agent in a gorilla suit, thinking the agent was an actual gorilla.
On his deathbed, Steve Jobs asked for five different oxygen masks so he could choose the one with the best design.
Thought for the Day: "To acquire knowledge, one must study, but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." -- Marilyn vos Savant
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