Strange But True: March 22, 2018

* It was famed Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius who made the following sage observation: “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

* The United States isn’t the only country that has an accolade to recognize excellence in the film industry. Here the awards are known as the Oscars, but other nations have their own names: In Canada they’re known as Genies, in France they’re Cesars, in Russia they’re called Nikas, in Mexico they’re Golden Ariels, in Spain they’re known as Goyas, and in the United Kingdom they’re called BAFTAs (formerly the Orange British Academy Film Awards).

* Here’s a disturbing statistic for parents: If your child is like the average American youth, between the ages of 5 and 15 they will see approximately 13,500 people killed on television.

* A chicken, a sheep and a duck get in the basket of a hot air balloon. No, that’s not the first line of a joke; they really were passengers on a hot air balloon — the very first passengers in that type of conveyance, as a matter of fact.

* Those who study such things say that fully one-third of all your brainpower is used for vision.

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Thought for the Day: “I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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