Strange But True: Chameleon Fight

By Lucie Winborne

• A fight between chameleons is more likely to be both initiated and won by the lizard with the brighter stripes. But then, such conflicts are rare, since that flashier color display is typically enough to win the duel.

• Every year, 11,000 injuries are reported in America as a result of sexual experimentation.

• Do you like to bowl? So did a lot of folks in 14th-century England, to the extent that King Edward III actually tried to outlaw the game in an effort to redirect the focus of his troops to archery!

• The Popigai crater in northern Siberia contains an estimated trillions of karats of industrial-grade diamonds. Unfortunately, they're too expensive to mine.

• Many if not most people hate those annoying pop-up ads that plague our computers ... and you can include their creator, Ethan Zuckerman, in that group. In 2014, he confessed in an article: "I wrote the code to launch the window and run an ad in it. I'm sorry. Our intentions were good."

• Bulgarians nod when they want to say no and shake their heads when they want to say yes.

• A cow will allow itself to be led up the stairs, but it will be impossible for you to lead it back down the stairs again.

• Here's a little extra justification for those of us who dislike daylight saving time: The practice has been linked to increased heart attacks, strokes, car accidents, workplace injuries, headaches, depressive episodes and even lower SAT scores.

• For centuries, the word "topaz" was used to refer to any yellow gemstone, despite the fact that natural topaz is colorless.

Thought for the Day: "Lighting a fire under something may get it burning, but lighting the fire from within something tends to keep it burning." -- Brenda Strohbehn Henderson

(c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc.