Hockey superstitions, you’ve got to love them! Every year, the same thing happens. The two teams that won their conferences are presented their championship trophies (basically, this makes them semi-final winners). They will now go on and play in the finals for the Stanley Cup. But no one or either team will come close to touching those trophies. It is a hockey fact that if you touch it (the lesser trophy), you will never get to touch the Stanley Cup. You can get a team picture with it, but you can’t touch it. Now, if you look at that team photo, you will also notice another superstition—playoff beards. Shaving during the playoffs is bad luck. Looking scruffy during the playoffs apparently isn’t. But superstitions are not just for the playoffs. Lots of players have superstitions about their sticks. Wayne Gretzky wouldn’t let anyone touch his stick after he had taped

In the 1950’s, the Dayak people in Borneo had a problem. They were experiencing a terrible outbreak of malaria. The World Health Organization decided to help. After assessing the situation, they came up with a plan. To stop the spread of malaria, they needed to stop the mosquitoes. And the way to do that was to spray the area with DDT. And it worked! Soon, dead mosquitoes littered the ground. Now, this was particularly good news for the resident gecko population who loved to munch on a meal of mosquitoes, especially when they didn’t even have to work for their dinner. Mosquitoes were everywhere. Unfortunately, the geckos didn’t realize these mosquitoes were being served with extra zip. As a result, after eating a few mosquitoes, the geckos began to stagger around like they were drunk (they were actually poisoned, but let’s not kill the mood along with the mosquitoes). Now,