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Alta Californian to lambast Stanford for unsavory business practices—hardly conducive to a “friendly wager.”
     
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    Poll results: 50% of all Oreo-eaters say they pull them apart before eating them.
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STRANGE TOURIST ATTRACTIONS
    Next time you’re traveling across America, set aside some time to visit these unusual atractions. From the hilarious book , Roadside America.
    T HE CEMENT OX
    Location: Three Forks, Montana
    Background: The ox, nicknamed “New Faithful,” is one of two 12-foot tall cement oxen statutes that stand outside the Prairie Schooner Restaurant, and appears to be pulling the restaurant—which is shaped like an enormous covered wagon.
    Be Sure to See.. .the cashier gleefully asking customers, “Have you seen old faithful?” and then adding, “Well, take a look at new faithful!” She pushes a secret button, and the cement ox starts peeing.
    THE HAIR MUSEUM
    Location: Independence, Missouri
    Background: This museum is all that remains of an art form developed by cosmetology schools in the 19th century to keep hair clippings from going to waste.
    Be Sure to See... the museum’s collection of 75 items made entirely from hair, including hair wreaths, hair bookmarks, and a hair diary that belonged to a convict. You can even get a discount haircut, performed by “fully licensed” cosmetology students.
    THE HOEGH PET CASKET CO.
    Location: Gladstone, Michigan
    Background: Hoegh makes seven different sizes of coffins for pets, including boxes tiny enough for birds and large enough for Great Danes.
    Be Sure to See... the “model” pet cemetery and demonstration. Note the brass sign over the crematorium that reads, “If Christ had a dog, he would have followed Him to the cross.”
     
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    Squirrels lose at least half the nuts they hide—they forget where they put them.
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    NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE
    Location: Bethesda, Maryland
    Background: The museum is actually quite respectable and has been around for more than a century, but the definition of what is “respectable” has changed a lot over the years. Some of the older items on display are pretty disgusting.
    Be Sure to See... the amputated leg of Major General Daniel E. Sickles, who lost the leg during the Civil War when it was hit by a 12-1b. cannonball—which is also on display. “For many years,” the sign reads, “Sickles visited the museum on the anniversary of its amputation.” Also: the computer terminal that lets you play doctor to a mortally wounded Abraham Lincoln. “Congratuations! You’ve scored an 84 out of a possible 100. The nation applauds your effort as a doctor and as a responsible member of society. Unfortunately, the president is dead.”
    THE WORLD’S SECOND-LARGEST BALL OF TWINE
    Location: Cawker City, Kansas.
    Background: When Frank Stoeber learned of the existence of the World’s Largest Ball of Twine (12 feet in circumference, 21,140 lbs. of twine) in Darwin, Minnesota, he set out to roll an even bigger one...but died when his ball was still one foot too small in circumference. The city fathers put it on display anyway.
    Be Sure to See... Stoeber’s ball of twine, displayed outside in a gazebo. Note the aroma: a musty smell, kind of like damp, rotting...twine.
    THE HOLE ‘N’ THE ROCK
    Location: Moab, Utah
    Background: In 1940, a man named Albert Christensen took some dynamite and started blasting holes in a rock. He kept blasting until 1952, when he had enough holes—14 in all—to build a house, a cafe, and a gift shop. The Hole ‘N’ the Rock attracts 40,000 visitors a year.
    Be Sure to See... the bathroom, which has an entire cavern to itself. Christensen named it “a toilet in a tomb.”
     
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    Fart Fact: The average human body has about 100 milliliters of bowel gas at one time.
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    THE MUSEUM OF QUESTIONABLE MEDICAL DEVICES
    Location: In a strip mall in Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Background: Operated by Bob McCoy, the museum was founded to encourage interest in science