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11 Things We Didn't Know Last Week
By Steve Mencher, November 6, 2013 05:34 PM
News, discoveries and fun ...
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1. The world's first glow-in-the-dark ice cream uses jellyfish proteins. (Learn more at Lick Me I'm Delicious)
2. A beagle named Elvis can smell when polar bears are pregnant at the Cincinnati zoo. (Learn more at Cincinnati Zoo)
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3. Customs agents in Los Angeles recovered a 1953 Triumph motorcycle that was stolen from a Nebraska man's backyard nearly 46 years ago. (Learn more at Orange County Register)
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4. Twenty Pound Carp, a fish with its own Twitter handle, was an unsuccessful write-in candidate for the Ann Arbor City Council. (Learn more at MSN.com) (Hilarie Grey, AARP Nevada tipped us off via 11things@aarp.org)
I voted for @TwentyPoundCarp pic.twitter.com/9RkHJp3iBn - Peter Nelson (@NelsonPJ) November 5, 2013
5. A third of herbal supplements sampled in a test contained only contaminants or fillers, not even a trace of the listed ingredient. (Learn more at AARP)
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6. You can add years to your life by gardening, mowing the lawn and doing housework. (Learn more at AARP)
7. More than $1 billion of artwork looted by the Nazis, including paintings by Matisse and Picasso, was found in a Munich apartment. (Learn more at CNN)
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8. Scientific proof: Smoking can make you look lots older than you are. (Learn more at AARP)
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9. As many as 40 billion earth-size planets in our galaxy may be hospitable to life. (Learn more at N.Y. Times)
10. There's a global wine shortage. (Learn more at CNN)
11. The 12 engineers who created the first IBM PC were nicknamed " The Dirty Dozen." (Learn more at AARP)
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Bonus video: "I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy"
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Images - Ice Cream: Charlie Francis, Lickmeimdelicious; Elvis the Beagle: Cincinnati Zoo; Triumph Motorcycle: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol; Ginkgo Biloba: Wikimedia Commons; Twins: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal; IBM PC: Ruben de Rijcke via Wikipedia
Music - Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra plays Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra - Blue Blazes by Sy Oliver, Creative Commons, courtesy of Smithsonian Remix project.
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