Strange But True: Jan. 18, 2018

STRANGE BUT TRUE

* It was British author P.L. Travers, best known for her series of books about Mary Poppins, who made the following sage observation: “A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader, and from the reader the writer learns.”

* You’ve probably been to a restaurant with a dessert called Death by Chocolate, but the real-life event is less appetizing. After falling into a vat of boiling chocolate in New Jersey, a man died before his co-workers were able to pull him out.

* Colgate toothpaste is good for more than just cleaning those pearly whites, evidently....