PENCIL MUSEUM
There is a pencil sharpener museum in the Hocking Hills Welcome Center in Ohio.
It is a collection of over 3,400 pencil sharpeners.
The humble reverend Paul Johnson began collecting pencil sharpeners in the late 1980's.
There are all kinds of sharpeners, including planes, cars, toys, U.S. presidents.
"The whole thing started with two metal cars, my wife bought for me as a gift in 1989"..."Little did she know I would take off running with the idea."..."I now have over 3000 different sharpeners, with NO duplicates in here."
At 93 years of age, he passed away on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at the Christian Homes Care Community in Holdrege.
CATS
Cats conserve energy by sleeping for an average of 13 to14 hours a day.
Cats have flexible bodies. and teeth adapted for hunting small animals such as mice and rats.
A group of cats is called a clowder.
A male cat is called a tom, a female cat is called a molly or queen.
According to a study done by Debra Wells of Queen's University school of psychology in 2009, female cats are usually right pawed and males are left pawed.
For 20 years, the mayor of Talkeetna, a small town in Alaska , was a cat.
A cat ran for a mayor in Mexico in 2013.
The longest cat in the world is over 42 inches long.
Cats can't taste sweet things.
The oldest cat in the world lived to be 38.
The richest cat in the world inherited $12.5 million when its owner passed away.
Cats don't just purr when they're content, they also purr when they're under duress, or when they're injured.
A cat can jump six times it's own height.
Cats hear four times better than a human.
Their brains are 90% similar to that of a human's brain.
Cats use their whiskers to determine if they can fit in a certain space.
Cats sweat through their paws.
Cats have a distinct pattern on their nose, like a human fingerprint.
In other countries than the U.S., black cats are good luck.
LEFT HANDED WHOPPER
1998, Burger King did a April fool's day prank.
They announced a left-handed Whopper.
Burger King said that all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees.
The very next day, left-handed customers showed up to order the special burger.
SNAKE WINE
Throughout South East Asia, you can buy snake wine.
It's an alcoholic beverage that has a whole venomous snake in the bottle.
It also includes insects, herbs and other animals.
CHEETAH
The species is listed as vulnerable.
The global cheetah population has been estimated at approximately 7,100 individuals in the wild.
Due to habitat loss, poaching, illegal pet trade, and conflict with humans.
A Cheetah can reach 39 miles an hour in just three strides.
It can reach 60 miles an hour in three seconds.
Cheetahs are active mainly during the day.
Adult males are sociable forming groups called coalitions.
Females be solitary or live with their offspring.
They will stalk their prey to within 330 to 980 ft, charge towards it and kill it by tripping it during the chase and biting its throat to suffocate it to death.
They can survive on one drink every three to four days.
They weigh 74 to 119 lbs.
HOLYWOOD
In 1987, the Hollywood sign was changed to Holywood for Pope John Paul II's visit.
The prank was undone before the Pope arrived.
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