- Want to live longer? Walk faster. Researchers in the UK collected data from nearly 475,000 people, measuring factors like their walking habits, body mass index, waist circumference and body fat percentage. People who reported a brisk walking pace lived longer across all body types; those who reported slower walking paces had a shorter life expectancy.

… A brisk walking pace is about 3 miles per hour, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

WEIRD DATING APP PROFILES

Dating sites and apps are a great way of meeting that someone special, but some people have some odd and even occasionally scary descriptions in their profiles.

• “I have no little or no empathy with other humans.”

• “I do understand and love animals but I’m not above eating the tasty ones.”

• “If you want a socially awkward nerdy redneck carnivore with road rage issues on a part time basis then hit me up.”

• “My hobbies are binge-watching TV shows and binge-eating marshmallows.”

• “If I do meet someone she will have to understand that I will spend more time away than with her.”

• “Could you forgive someone if they cheated?”

• “Don’t be surprised if my sister comes along on a few dates.”

• “Hobbies include stretching earthworms until they nearly snap.”

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: COP TRIED TO CONCEAL EVIDENCE OF CAR CRASH USING WHITE-OUT _ A Denver police officer has been fired after concealing an unauthorized car chase and filing a false report about the incident in what a superior called “an extraordinary series of bad decisions.” Nicholas Mauro followed an SUV with a broken tail light on November 19, 2019, reaching speeds up to 99 mph but never turned on his lights, siren, or body camera until he crashed into a home. Mauro then reportedly logged a false report claiming that he had simply found the SUV damaged on the side of the road. He also covered up the damage to his own car with white-out. Mauro was caught when the owner of the home he crashed into reported the situation to a corporal and her account did not align with his.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: MAN LOSES ARM-WRESTLING MATCH WITH SON, PULLS GUN _ An arm-wrestling contest between a Kentucky father and son turned violent. Boone County authorities say 55-year-old Curtis Zimmerman was intoxicated when he challenged his son to an arm-wrestling competition. When Zimmerman lost multiple times, he became “agitated” and got into a physical fight with his son. Zimmerman grabbed a gun and fired two shots into the ceiling while his son was going upstairs. No one was injured but the incident led to an 8-hour standoff with deputies.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: TRUCKER FENDS OFF A VENOMOUS SNAKE AT 70 MPH ON BUSY HIGHWAY _ An Australian trucker successfully fought off a highly venomous snake while traveling at 70 miles per hour along a busy highway. Police stopped the 27-year-old man because they thought he was speeding. But the terrified trucker explained to cops that he was using a knife and seatbelt to fend off an eastern brown snake, which had infiltrated the driver’s cab and started to wrap around him. Police found the serpent coiled in the back of the truck’s cab.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: 450-POUND MAN TRIES TO HIDES DRUGS IN HIS STOMACH FAT _ A Florida man who weighs about 450 pounds faces multiple charges after sheriff’s deputies say he hid cocaine and 23 grams of marijuana under his stomach fat. A sheriff’s deputy (in Volusia County) stopped a vehicle Friday after noticing that the passenger wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. Officials say 42-year-old Christopher Mitchell told the deputy that he’s too big to wear a seatbelt. The deputy says he requested a drug-detecting dog because Mitchell and the driver appeared nervous. The dog detected the presence of drugs in the vehicle. In addition to the drugs on Mitchell, deputies say they also found a handgun and $7,000 in cash in the vehicle.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: MAN ADOPTS PUPPIES, LEARNS THEY’RE ACTUALLY BEARS _ A guy in China got a big surprise when he adopted two puppies. After raising them for two years he discovered they were actually two black bears. The man says he groomed them every day and they were very well behaved. It was only when he saw some information about endangered wild animals that he recognized that he had been illegally keeping endangered animals by accident. He turned the animals in.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: FARMER DRAINS POND, FINDS ATM _ A Nebraska farmer draining a pond on his property for maintenance made a surprising and unusual discovery. Wynn Hall (of Exeter, Nebraska) said he started the process of draining the pond, which is used for pumping waters off his fields, and checked on it the following morning. Hall said he initially thought an object stuck in the mud was a household appliance. It turned out to be an ATM.

… The farmer said he doesn’t know how long the ATM was in his pond, since he didn’t drain it in 2019, but it didn’t appear to have been in the water for more than a few weeks. Local authorities told him about an ATM that had recently been stolen but the one in the pond didn’t match the serial number.

 WACKY-BUT-TRUE: STUBBORN PEACOCK BLOCKS ENTRANCE TO APARTMENT _ A promiscuous peacock has been relocated by animal control officers after setting up a new home near a Victoria, British Columbia apartment and causing a commotion. Before the peacock was removed, apartment resident Susan Simmons said, “From 5:30AM until 8PM he would do his mating dance in front of our front door and attract the ladies over. At first it was really cute, but then it becomes really frustrating because of the noise.” Residents named the peacock Peat. He even fought off another male to claim his territory in front of the building.

… Another resident said Peat “owned the building. The women heard him making the calls and he would have three regulars that would sit on the fence and wait for him.

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Fun Facts

✓ The dolphins that live in the Amazon River are pink.

✓ Other names considered for the Seven Dwarfs: Snoopy, Dippy, Blabby, Woeful and Flabby.

STARTLING FACTS ABOUT AMERICAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE

A few crazy numbers from LiveScience.com.

• Junk galore. Each American throws out about 4.4 pounds of trash every single day. That means some 1.4 billion pounds of trash gets tossed in the U.S. daily.

• Very superstitious. 42 percent of Americans believe in ghosts, 26 percent in witches and 24 percent in reincarnation.

… Meanwhile, 7 percent of Americans believe the moon landing was faked.

• Standing not quite as tall. For close to 200 years, spanning the Revolutionary War period to the World War II era, Americans were among the tallest people in the world. Heights have leveled off, however, for around five decades, at around 5 foot 9 inches for men and 5 foot 4 inches for women. Western and Northern European populations, such as the Dutch, have since become the tallest on Earth.

• Motorized love affair. The United States has 809 motor vehicles per 1,000 people. That’s tops in the world, except for the three tiny, rich European nations of Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino.

• Locked up. The United States incarcerates more people than any other country — currently has more than 2.3 million people behind bars. That works out to about 25 percent of the total global population of inmates.

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