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Thursday, FEBRUARY 2, 2023 Volume 69 | Number 22
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Carnival, Car Show, Tequila Tastings, Live Entertainment, Food & More • In the 1800s, popcorn was often eaten as a cereal with milk and sugar. • Players of the video game “Call of Duty” have spent more hours thus engaged than the entire course of human existence. • The longest surgical procedure in history, in which doctors separated a pair of Nepalese conjoined twins who were born with a shared brain cavity, took place in Singapore in 2001 and lasted 103 hours. • Valentine’s Day weddings are apparently 18-36% more likely to end in divorce. • “Guerrilla grafting” is the illegal process of turning city-maintained sterile fruit trees into fruit producers by splicing compatible branches onto the sterile trees with branches from the fruiting trees. • Alexander the Great loved his horse, Bucephalus, so much that when it died in 326 B.C., he named the town of Bucephala for it. • A Harvard study found that a person’s IQ can drop by as much as 13 points when they are under financial stress, due in part to the amount of brain power used to think about such burdens that causes distraction. (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc.
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elebrate the sights, sounds, and tastes of the state of Jalisco, Mexico at the 7th Annual Taste of Jalisco Festival, February 3 -5, in downtown Cathedral City. This annual celebration honors the 26-year sister city relationship between Cathedral City and Tequila, Jalisco (Mexico) through culture, cuisine, music, and fashion. The weekend includes a family-friendly carnival, artisan craft vendor market, tequila tastings, authentic Mexican cuisine, car show, and daily entertainment. Festivities kick off Friday, February 3 beginning at 4 p.m. and features the raising of the flags, a proclamation reading from Cathedral City Mayor Rita Lamb, followed by live entertainment and the opening of the carnival and tequila tasting garden. Along Ave Lalo Guerrero, more than 25 boutique vendors selling authentic Mexican arts & crafts and
fun, unique products will add to the festive atmosphere. Admission to the vendor market and access to the carnival is free. Tickets are required and sold onsite for carnival rides and games. A highlight of the weekend will be entertainment from the Jalisco Community Stage featuring local and regional musical groups and live acts celebrating Mexican art and culture. The lineup includes multiple folklorico dance troupes, Las Tias, Dreaming of You (Selena tribute), Outlaw Mariachi, Corazon de Mana (Mana tribute), and a Saturday night headline performance by Grupo Control. Event hours are Friday 4 to 10 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 8 pm. Festivities are held downtown Cathedral City, 68600 E. Palm Canyon Drive. Parking is free. For more information visit tasteofjalisco.com.
Fascinating facts about Bubble Gum • If you are chewing on gum while cutting onions, this will stop your eyes from watering. The science behind it? While chewing on gum you will breathe through your mouth rather than your nose so the irritation caused by the onion scent will reach the lachrymal gland in smaller amounts. • Have you ever wondered why most chewing gum is pink? Well, the inventor was desperately trying to create the perfect bubble gum, and by the time the recipe reached perfection, the only colour he had left to use was pink! • We all grew up being told that if you swallow chewing gum, your intestines will get clogged up and your intestines will get stuck together. Sound familiar? Well in actual fact, this is actually quite rare. If you swallow chewing gum, it will be in your system for a
few days, before your body will get rid of it. As gum base can’t be digested, you will eliminate it as a whole. • Studies have shown that when you chew on gum you become more alert, your muscle tension is reduced and you are able to focus better on the activities you are working on.
1. GEOGRAPHY: Where is Mount Fuji located? 2. MOVIES: What is the material used in Captain America’s shield? 3. MUSIC: Who wrote the lyrics to the 1961 “West Side Story” movie? 4. SCIENCE: Which color has the longest wavelength? 5. HISTORY: When did the United States outlaw child labor? 6. TELEVISION: Who played the leading role in the legal series “Ally McBeal”? 7. AD SLOGANS: Which fast-food chain tells customers that “We have the meats”? 8. LITERATURE: What is the setting for the “Divergent” novel series?
• The first name for chewing gum was “BlibberBlubber”. Can you imagine if that stuck? It’s a bit of a mouthful to say the least.
9. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Which animal represents the 2023 Chinese zodiac year?
• Another useful fun fact about chewing gum is that you can remove it from your hair using peanut butter. You will have to separate the area from the rest of your hair, cover it in peanut butter and start rubbing it out. This is due to the oil found in peanut butter which helps to separate the gum.
10. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a group of butterflies called? (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc. Answer on page 6