Strange but true

Wed., April 1, 2009

Samantha Weaver King Features Synd., Inc.

• President Abraham Lincoln’s widow, Mary Todd Lincoln, did not attend her husband’s funeral.

• It was Nobel Prize-winning French poet, journalist and novelist Anatole France who gave the following sage advice: “Never lend books — nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.”

• Have you ever had your IQ tested? If not, I’m sure you’ve wondered how your intelligence would rate on that well-known scale. Famed theoretical physicist Albert Einstein had an IQ of 160. The highest recorded IQ is 210, with those brains belonging to a Korean named Kim Ung-Yong.

• There are so many Swedes and people of Swedish descent in Minnesota that the Scandinavian country created a holiday for them: Sweden celebrates Minnesota Day every Aug. 12.

• There are 147,000 identified species of moth.

• If you’re visiting San Luis Obispo County in California and want to check out a book at the local library, you’d better be sure to take a shower first. It’s legal there for library officials to kick out anyone who is deemed to have offensive body odor.

Thought for the Day: “Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.” — Dave Barry