Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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It is possible for you to survive even after the removal of the spleen, the stomach, one kidney, one lung, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, and almost every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
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Poon Lim survived 133 days alone on a raft at sea by fishing, drinking bird blood, and killing a shark with a jug of water.
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In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are asleep.
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"Fish odor syndrome" is a rare genetic disorder that causes people to smell like rotten fish.
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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