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>BUT TRUE
By Samantha Weaver
* It was American comedian Joey
Adams who made the lk)llowing sage
observation: "'If it weren't for the tact
that tlae TV set and the retYigerator arc
SO [~lr apart. SOlne or us wouldn't get
any exercise at all.'"
• A butterlly-s sense of taste is locat-
ed on its feel
• ~\)u kno~ that smoking is haz-
ardous to your health, but you might
not realize all the differenl types of
damage it can do. For instance, a shop
in Great Britain required more than
$400,000 in repairs to its roof due to a
fire I?om a cigarette. A tire from au
inadequately extinguished butt isn't at
all unusual, but in this case il wasn't
because tile owner or any other
person was careless. It £eelns a
sparrow that had been building its nest
in the store's eaves liked to use ciga-
rette butts. Tile bird evidently picked
one up thai was still burning, eventu-
all3 setting the building alight.
- Someone with 1oo irluch time ou
his hands once determined thai there
are 293 different combinations of
corns that will make change lot a U.S.
dollm;
Every year, doughnut-maker
Krispy Kreme uses a whopping I rail-
lieu pounds of sprinkles on its pas-
tries.
- Coffee is one of the most-traded
commodities on earth, second only to
oil.
• If you, like many others, are trying
Io figure out how to n3eet that special
sonteone, you might want to reconsid-
er the use of personal ads. Those who
study such things claim that approxi-
Trivia
1. GEOGRAPHY: What is the capi-
tal of Canada's Northwest Territories?
2. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a
baby bat called'?
3. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE:
What type of furniture is referred to as
a "highbo} "?
4. MUSIC: How man) holes does a
recorder ~wind instrument} have?
5. LANGUAGE: What is a lazaretto?
6. ARCHITECTURE: What is adobe
made off?
7. MYTHOLOGY: Who was the
Greek god of medicine?
8. DISCOVERIES: Who is credited
with im, enting the air brake'?
9. BIRTHSTONES: What is Novem-
ber's traditional birthstone'?
10. VIATH: What is the Arabic
equivalent of the Roman numeral
MCMXC?
Answers
I. Yellowknife
2. A pup
3. Tall chest of drawers
4. Eight
5. A place to quarantine people with
infectious disease
6. The building material is made of
dried earth and straw 7. Asclepius
8, George Westinghouse. 1868
9. Topaz
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King Crossword
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4 Told a tale t2 ,
8 React in pain 1-7--
12 Romanian
money ~8 '
13 Between
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14 Competent 26 27
15 Stevenson's ____
personifica 3~
tion of good 3-7---
17 Leave at the
altar 37
18 Whine
.ET: /I
carrier?
21 Under the 45 46
weather 50
22 "Sex for ____
Dummies" 53
writer
26 Eccentric 48
29 Attention
getter
30 Vast
expanse
31 Libertine's
feeling
32 Foundation
33 Minus
34 Mound stat
35 Monkey suit
36 Circum-
ference
37 Oprah adviser
39 Wambaugh
or Wapner
(Abbr.)
40 Moray, for
one
41 Dermato-
logist's case
45 Sail support
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Scarlet" 6 Blueprint 29 Whammy
narrator addition 32 Edition sold
50 Head light? 7 Tricked the n~ght
51 -- and 8 Collegian's before
terminer choice 33 "Hungaria"
52 Expert 9 Sapporo composer
53 Unimprovable sash 35 Dead heal
place 10 The whole 36 Kid's racer
54 Money enchilada 38 Egret's
55 Longing 11 Bottom line cousin
16 Oust 39 "You Were
DOWN 20 Saute Meant for
1 Automaker 23 Addict Me" singer
Ransom 24 Criterion 42 Catch sight of
Eli- 25 Scrambled 43 Additional
2 Spore eggs side 44 Any time now
producer dish 45 That girl
3 Honshu 26 Coaster 46 Cushion
mountain 27 Kitten's 47 Ginger
4 Probable sound 49 Reuben
5 Pastoral 28 Now. on a holder
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