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STRANGE BUT TRUE #12345_20260803  
FOR RELEASE Aug. 3, 2026
BYLINE: By Lucie Winborne  
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* First cousins may marry in Utah, but only after age 65.
* The first Star Trek series was originally marketed as "Wagon Train to the Stars," after the popular 1957 western TV series "Wagon Train."
* To cut down on high pollution levels, car owners in San Jose, Costa Rica, are prohibited from driving into the city one day out of the week. That day corresponds to the last number on their car's license plate.
* Chickens can see color better than humans.
* Simply thinking about sex can trigger sneezing in some people. Scientists think this may be due to crossed nerve signals in the automatic nervous system.
* Los Angeles has more museums than any other city in the world.
* The sun is actually white. It appears yellow from Earth because our atmosphere tints it that hue.
* Cats don't have a sweet tooth. A genetic mutation prevents our feline friends from tasting sweetness, making them indifferent to sugary foods.
* After pornography, ancestry websites are the most commonly visited on the internet.
* In 1955, Vietnamese Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem printed his ballots on red paper, which the Vietnamese consider a very lucky color, and the ballots for his opponent on green paper, which is considered just the opposite. (He won, but not because of color.)
* Being in love and being high on cocaine activate the same portions of the brain.
* When psychologist Timothy Leary entered prison in 1971, he knew how to answer the psychology tests given to inmates because he'd helped design some of the questions. He then manipulated the answers to get a gardening job, which he used to escape.
* The U.S. Supreme Court has its own police force.
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Thought for the Day: "You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind." -- Joyce Meyer
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