Strange But True: Two Nobel Prizes

By Lucie Winborne

• Belize wins the prize for having the national flag with the most colors -- 12.

• A California man discovered that he'd been paying his neighbor's power bill for an astonishing 15 years because his meter was mapped to the wrong apartment.

• Labatt Park in London, Ontario, dating back to 1877, is the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world.

• A Japanese man who didn't speak to his wife for 20 years while they still lived together and raised three children admitted his silence was due to jealousy of the attention she paid to their kids. Fortunately, the couple finally reconciled after said kids sought help from a TV show.

• Marie Curie was the first person ever to win two Nobel Prizes, one for physics and the other for chemistry, in honor of her work on radioactivity.

• Hawaiian pizza was invented by a Greek immigrant inspired by the sweet and savory flavors of Chinese cuisine.

• Atoms are nearly 100% empty space.

• Cotard's Syndrome, aka Walking Corpse Syndrome, causes sufferers to believe they are dead or missing body parts.

• Ancient Egyptians pronounced the word "cat" as "mew" or "meow."

• A 2001 study conducted at the University of Leicester showed that when cows listen to slow, soothing songs, they produce 3% more milk.

• Those CAPTCHA tests that verify you're human and not a robot have a dual purpose: Each time you identify a bus or traffic light or what have you, you're also helping to improve AI algorithms for companies like Google.

• There are more than 1.4 billion insects for each human on Earth.

Thought for the Day: "Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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