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Newts used to be ewts, but over time ‘an ewt’ became ‘a newt’.

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Penelope, a platypus at a New York Zoo, was famous for faking a pregnancy and constantly avoiding her mate, Cecil. In 1957, she escaped from the platypusary and was never seen again.

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Not only do mosquitoes bite you and suck your blood, they also urinate on you before flying off.

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Snails will sleep for up to three years if the weather isn't good enough.

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In 1993, a man in Brazil tried to rob a glue factory, but accidentally knocked over two large cans and spilled the contents. The police found him glued to the floor.

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You’d need to do 60 squats to offset the weight gain caused by a large glass of red wine

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If Sweden plays Denmark at football, it’s abbreviated to SWE–DEN; the remaining letters spell DEN–MARK.

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Charles VII of France thought he was made of glass and wrapped himself in blankets to prevent his buttocks shattering.

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You technically have about 4 minutes to live, but every time you breathe, you reset the clock.

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In 2013, a fake tweet temporarily wiped out US$130 billion off the stock market. The Twitter account of Associated Press was hacked, and tweeted that Barack Obama had been injured in an explosion at the White House.

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In the 1980s, the transit agency in the San Francisco Bay Area awarded a contract to repair vandalised seats to one company. That company then started paying people to vandalise more seats.

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They don't like facts over there

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There would be many more Egyptian mummies around today if the Victorian British hadn't eaten most of them.

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The only difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal one is the taste.

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An adult produces enough hydrogen in their urine each year to drive a car 2,700 kilometres

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Defecation can stimulate the vagus nerve and produce a pleasurable sensation that is called ‘poo-phoria’.

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The very first game in the English football league top Division, in 1888, was a win for West Brom over Stoke. Since that match Stoke have never had a positive goal difference for the whole 137 years. Their highest goal difference was when it was 0 for the first 10 mins of the first ever league game

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You spend your whole life gathering guests for your funeral.

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On Valentine's Day 2014, a group of single men in Shanghai bought every odd-numbered seat for a theatre showing of Beijing Love Story. They did this to prevent couples from sitting together as a show of support for single people.

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There is no red in this picture. Your brain is filling the Red colour. The picture is made entirely of light blue, black and white. Zoom in and you'll see.

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By law, all citizens of Kentucky must take a bath at least once a year.

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NASA's top priority this decade is probing Uranus.

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A lethal dose of chocolate for a human being is about 22 lb or 40 bars of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk. A single M&M is enough to kill a hummingbird.

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Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo all mean ‘capital’ in their respective languages.

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Sunflowers face the sun. If they can't find the sun, they face each other.

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This is a cave painting estimated to be from 2000 BC (Algeria)

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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has towns called Intercourse and Paradise. It takes six minutes to get from one to the other.

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You only need to be three feet underwater to be protected from bullets.

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In 2012 a man sued Pepsi after he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew. However, Pepsi fought and won the case. They knew the can was 74 days old and could prove that any mouse would have easily dissolved in Mountain Dew after 30 days.

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One in ten Brits says they have a plan for the zombie apocalypse.

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Any steel used in Geiger counters must be from before 1945 so that it isn't contaminated with radiation from nuclear weapons. One of the primary sources for such steel is sunken ships from World War 2.

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The swordfish has only one natural predator, the penfish.

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Jesse James, the notorious outlaw from the 1800s, once gave a widow who housed him enough money to pay off her debt collector and then robbed the debt collector as the man left the widow's home.

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In 2015, an aquarium in Vancouver gave their one-eyed rockfish a false eye because he was being bullied.

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In 1908, a dog began pushing children into a river in Paris, only to jump in and rescue them after the dog figured out that rescuing children from the river resulted in treats.

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So how accurate is this map?

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President Jimmy Carter once told a joke during a speech in Japan that caused the audience to burst into laughter. Impressed, he asked how the interpreter got such a laugh The interpreter admitted to saying, "President Carter told a funny story; everyone must laugh"

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Although minor planets can’t be named after living politicians, asteroid 23238 Ocasio-Cortez was named in 2007 when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was in high school and awarded 2nd place in a prestigious science and engineering fair.

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It is only illegal to eat human flesh in one of the 50 US states.

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