STRANGE BUT TRUE - April 15, 2010

* It was French writer and film director Marguerite Duras who made the following observation: “I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood, and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.”

* In Colorado, it is illegal to mutilate a rock in a state park.

* Those who track radio statistics say that Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” is the most-requested song in the United States — and this despite the fact that the song was never released as a single on this side of the Atlantic.

* If y...