Weird Facts
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Ancient Greeks used to go to the gym naked, and the word ‘gymnasium’ means “school for naked exercise”.
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Ancient Greeks used to go to the gym naked, and the word ‘gymnasium’ means “school for naked exercise”.
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Male giraffes assess female fertility by tasting the female’s urine.
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In 2015, two daycare employees in New Jersey were imprisoned for running a toddler fight club among a dozen boys and girls aged 4-6.
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A British Airways’ flight to Dubai was forced to return to Heathrow Airport because someone took a dump that smelled so bad that it was unbearable for passengers.
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A 70-year-old man robbed a Kansas City bank and then sat down in the lobby, saying he’d rather live in jail than with his wife
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There’s a chemical you can buy on Amazon called bismuth subgallate (brand name “Devrom”). It’s harmless and will make your feces and flatus odorless, or at least much less stinky.
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Rich Romans sometimes made a complicated meal that involved stuffing a chicken inside a duck, then the duck inside a goose, then the goose inside a pig, then the pig inside a cow, and cooking the whole thing together
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There is a 500-year-old statue of a man eating a sack of babies in Bern, Switzerland, and nobody knows why.
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The Fairyfly, a type of parasitic wasp, is so absurdly small that its body length can be as small as 130 micrometers, smaller than many single-celled ameba.
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When frogs are swallowing their food, they blink. When they blink, their eyeballs go down to their mouth and push the food down its throat.
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The Argania Trees in Morocco produce such irresistible fruits that goats have to perch on these trees like birds to eat them.
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The “89/98” is a type of a butterfly, and it is called so because of the markings on its wing resemble an 89 and 98.
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Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein published a best-selling romance novel that spawned a twenty-episode TV series and a stage musical
