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STRANGE BUT TRUE #12345_20260727  
FOR RELEASE July 27, 2026
BYLINE: By Lucie Winborne  
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* Masculine features are more attractive to a woman during her ovulation cycle, while softer, nurturing-looking features are preferred at other times.
* NBC's "Saturday Night Live" has won more Emmys than any other TV show.
* The verb "lynch" is generally believed to have originated with Virginia landowner Charles Lynch, who during the American Revolution conducted unauthorized trials and punishments outside the formal court system.
* According to Greek mythology, the Milky Way formed when the goddess Hera spilled milk across the night sky.
* The irresistible desire to steal books is known as bibliokleptomania.
* In the popular 18th-century "Flying Boy" experiment, English scientist Stephen Gray harmlessly electrified a boy suspended by silk cords, astonishing audiences as the boy's hair stood on end and sparks flew from his nose.
* Multiplication tables are also called the "Table of Pythagoras," after the Ionian Greek philosopher and mathematician.
* Chewbacca's voice in "Star Wars" was created by mixing the sounds of bears, lions, walruses and badgers.
* The University of Bologna, Italy, which was founded in 1088, is the oldest university in Europe. The term "university" was coined at its creation and it is still considered a leader in European university systems. Its notable alumni include Pope Innocent IX and Copernicus.
* The first acoustic guitars made hundreds of years ago had four, as opposed to six, strings.
* Doctors leave sponges and other medical devices inside of their patients about 6,000 times a year.
* Some critics theorize that zombies gnaw on humans because their warm flesh may have to do with a virus needing fresh DNA or some parasitic microorganism that receives a form of nourishment from live blood cells.
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Thought for the Day: "In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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