STRANGE BUT TRUE - July 15, 2010

* It was famed 20th-century Canadian-American economist John Kenneth Galbraith who made the following sage observation: “It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.”

* In Switzerland, it’s considered to be bad luck to tell anyone your baby’s name before he or she is born.

* It’s been estimated that, around the world, 16 million tons of rain fall every second.

* Do you ever yawn just because you saw someone else do it? It seems that humans are the only animals so affected.

* If you’ve spent a great deal of time in the Scottish...