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DID YOU KNOW...
Duncan Hines was a real person. He was a popular restaurant critic who also
wrote a book of hotel recommendations.


1. What restaurant encourages you to "Think outside the bun?"
2. Which one of these people would be the oldest if they were all still
alive today?
a. - Thomas Edison
b. - Sigmund Freud
c. - Pablo Picasso
d. - Charles Dickens
3. What is the classical literary language of the Hindu scriptures?
4. The country of New Zealand is perhaps more famous than the province of
Zeeland after which it is named. In which colonizing nation would you find
Zeeland?
5. "Billy Elliot" is a musical about a boy who wants to be what?
6. The Lotus Auto Company is based which country ?
7. Who was the main character in J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye"?
8. For the sake of convenience, astronomers have divided the sky into 88
constellations. In which of these constellations does the current Pole Star,
Polaris, lie?
a. - Ursa Minor
b. - Ursa Major
c. - Orion
d. - Cygnus

TRUTH OR CRAP ??
In the 1880's, a baboon worked as a signalman for nine years on a South
African railroad. He was paid in brandy and never made a mistake.
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1. Taco Bell
2. - d
3. Sanskrit
4. The Netherlands
5. a ballet dancer
6. England
7. Holden Caulfield
8. - a

TRUTH !!
During the late 1800's, travellers to Cape Town in South Africa witnessed a
very odd sight at the Uitenhage train station: the signalman, operating the
levers in the control tower, was a baboon named Jack. That’s right, he was a
signal baboon – and the story is a good one.
https://www.techly.com.au/2014/12/08/monkeying-around-baboon-employed-railroad-signalman-never-made-mistake/
 
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