STRANGE BUT TRUE

Costa Rica has the world’s only sloth orphanage.

According to Cunningham’s Law, the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to pose the wrong answer.

The first item sold on eBay, for $14.83, was a broken laser pointer, to someone who kept a collection of broken laser pointers.

In 2015, the 1,000-year-old corpse of a Buddhist monk was discovered inside an ancient statue of Buddha.

Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong once asked President Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because Armstrong was “an old man.” We feel pretty sure Nixon wasn’t aware the bags contained marijuana.

Vending machines kill more people per year than sharks.

Dockers recently increased the size of their coin pockets to accommodate the growing size of smartphones.

During the Apollo 12 mission, a 2 1/2-ton piece of the lunar module was experimentally crashed onto the surface of the moon, with a quite unexpected result: The moon “rang like a bell” for nearly an hour.

Hollywood Happenings

Even before the writer’s strike, NBC was making cuts to “Law & Order.” The upcoming shows will mostly feature major leads, and the supporting players will not be in every episode.

Since she made her Broadway debut 50 years ago, legend Patti LuPone has received three Tony Awards for “Evita,” “Gypsy” and, most recently, “Company.” In October 2022, she officially resigned from the Broadway stage union, admitting, “When the run of ‘Company’ ended this past July, I knew I wouldn’t be on stage for a very long time.” She told a producer who offered her a role that she didn’t want to do the show on Broadway, opting instead for East Fourth Street. When explaining why she doesn’t want to do Broadway anymore, LuPone stated, “Broadway’s now turning into a combination of Disney, Las Vegas and the circus. Plays are closing. The education of an audience is in grave danger.”