Strange But True: Unicorn Hunters

By Lucie Winborne

• Actor Paul Newman once said he was tired of people asking him to remove his sunglasses so they could see his famous blue eyes, confessing that his stock response was, "I would take off my sunglasses, madam, but my pants would fall down."

• Six million pounds of space dust settle on Earth every year.

• The Bahamas once boasted an undersea post office, Sea Floor Bahamas, established in 1939, which allowed mail to be posted with a unique "Sea Floor" postmark, which became a hit with stamp collectors until the office closed in 1942.

• Many birds' feathers weigh more than their bones.

• A hill in New Zealand is named Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

• Astronauts on Mars won't just make plans based on temperature, but will also need to consider tau, the level of particulate matter in the atmosphere. High tau levels will block sunlight to solar-powered rovers.

• A coyote can hear a mouse moving under a foot of snow.

• Since 1971, Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, has issued permits to unicorn hunters.

• The 1967 Outer Space Treaty forbids any nation from trying to own the moon.

• Pelé is the only soccer player to ever be a part of three different World Cup winning teams.

• "Beauty and the Beast" was the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture. It lost to "The Silence of the Lambs."

• Wisconsin is known as the Badger State because the area's lead miners used to spend winters in tunnels burrowed into hills -- like badgers.

• Honey hunters in Mozambique use special calls to recruit the services of birds known as honeyguides, which lead the hunters to bees' nests.

Thought for the Day: "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." -- Marilyn Monroe

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