Strange BUT TRUE

• A double rainbow occurs when sunlight is reflected twice inside a raindrop. Look closely, and you’ll see that the colors of the secondary rainbow appear in reverse order.

• In an 897 A.D. event known as the Cadaver Synod, Pope Stephen VI had the corpse of a previous pontiff, Formosus, exhumed, perched on a throne and questioned about his “crimes,” which were mostly about being on the wrong side of a political struggle.

• Blood makes up about 8% of your total body weight.

• Floccinaucinihilipilification — one of the longest words in the English language — is the act of estimating that something is worthless.

• According to a Japanese study, looking at cute animal pictures can boost your focus.

• We hate to break it to you, but Wendy’s chocolate Frosty is actually half chocolate and half vanilla, because owner Dave Thomas thought an all-chocolate treat would be too overpowering when paired with the chain’s burgers and fries.

• At the Gettysburg reunion in 1913, two men purchased a hatchet, walked to the site where their regiments had fought, and buried it.

• An Oscar trophy has a raw value of about $600.

• In a move that many may appreciate, if not take the trouble to emulate, a British man changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.

• A 1907 ad campaign for Kellogg’s Corn Flakes offered a free sample of cereal to any customer who would wink at their grocer.

• The cubicle derives its name not from its shape, but from the Latin “cubiculum,” meaning bedchamber.

• It once took 27 hours to create a single Peeps Marshmallow Chick. Today, it takes six minutes.

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Thought for the Day: “Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.” — A.C. Benson