Random Strange Facts

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    Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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    In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. (The husband's lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired.)
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    A jellyfish's mouth also serves as an anus.
    A jellyfish's mouth also serves as an anus.
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    Lobster-Claw Alien Abduction
    Lobster-Claw Alien Abduction
    In 1973, two men arrived at a sheriff's office claiming to have been abducted by aliens with lobster-claw hands. Left alone in a room with a secret recording device to expose their lie, they instead continued to talk in "terribly distressed" voices about the abduction.
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    Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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    A man named Heraclitus had an illness that made his body swell up with water. To try to sweat it off, he buried himself in a steaming pile of animal poo, but then overheated and died of dehydration.
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    Monowi, Nebraska
    Monowi, Nebraska
    "Monowi" is a town in Nebraska that has a population of 1; the Mayor pays taxes to herself.
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    Carotenemia
    Carotenemia
    If you eat lots of carrots, you'll start to turn orange.
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