Strange BUT TRUE

• Rapper Snoop Dogg tried to rent the country of Lichtenstein for a music video, but was rejected.

• The Vatican has its own telescope staffed by priests, and has even received awards for the pursuit of scientific research.

• Until they are large enough to sleep upright, baby owls sleep on their stomachs because their heads are too heavy.

• Actual corpses were on the set and going to be used during the filming of “Apocalypse Now.” However, the man who supplied them turned out to be a grave robber and was arrested.

• Oceans around the world contain about 20 million tons of gold in the water itself, worth hundreds of trillions of dollars at current prices.

• In 1997, Motley Crue created a soda called “Motley Brue” to help promote their new album “Generation Swine.” For additional fun, they added enough blue dye to turn the drinker’s urine green.

• Walt Disney accidentally “kidnapped” Richard Nixon by dispatching his monorail train before the Secret Service could get on.

• When added together, the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.

• M&Ms were created so military soldiers could enjoy heat-resistant and easily transportable chocolate during war.

• If your arm or hand falls asleep, try rocking your head from side to side. This will release the pressure on the nerves in your neck and wake up the limb.

• In 2003, PepsiCo offered Estonia $25 million dollars to change the spelling of one of its lakes, Lake Peipsi, to Lake Pepsi, but was turned down.

• A man legally named Santa Claus was elected to the city council in North Pole, Alaska.

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Thought for the Day: “I cannot believe the path to victory lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we fight.” — Anthony Ryan