Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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In November 2013, a woman in Florida named Linda Ducharme married a ferris wheel.
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There's an isolated tribe in Zimbabwe where the people have only two toes, dubbed the 'ostrich people'.
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If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate!)
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