BIZARRE BUT TRUE!

CASTOREUM, an artificial sweetener branded as “natural flavoring” in candy, ice cream, gelatin, baked goods and booze, actually comes from castor sacs under beavers’ tails. The critters use the secretion — along with urine — to mark their turf. Yummy!

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS ranks as the smartest man ever elected president, with an IQ of 175! Thomas Jefferson is in second place followed by John

F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Woodrow Wilson.

MGM studio czars refused to let sultry screen siren Jean Harlow marry The Thin Man actor William Powell, fearing being branded a “wife” would destroy her sex appeal!

CALIFORNIA has 14.8 million registered motor vehicles, the most in America, and more than three times the number in New York. Wyoming has the fewest — 196,219.