STRANGE BUT TRUE

Seventy-five percent of all sesame seeds grown in Mexico end up on McDonald’s hamburger buns. Pixar required its entire staff to take a graduate-level ichthyology (the branch of zoology that studies fish) class to help improve the authenticity of “Finding Nemo.”

Earthworms in the northern part of North America are a non-native, invasive species and a major factor in forest deterioration.

A city in Sweden uses light therapy in bus stops to combat depression during the winter when 19 hours of the day are darkness.

A lobster’s brain is located in its throat, its nervous system in its abdomen, its teeth in its stomach, and its kidneys in its head! It also hears using its legs, tastes with its feet, and tends to favor one front limb, meaning it can be right-clawed or leftclawed.

Brazil has the largest Japanese community outside of Japan.

Queen is the only band in which each member individually wrote more than one No. 1 hit.

No one actually “won” the war of 1812.

Celebrate

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

—Mahatma Gandhi

The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

—James

E. Faust

There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.

—Elder M. Russell Ballard

Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.

—Unknown

A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.

—Unknown

Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.

—Leroy Brownlow

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.

—Oliver

Wendell Holmes

Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.

—Gilda Radner

Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.

—Susan Gale