The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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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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The widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead-end staircases to confuse the ghosts of the people who were killed by her husband's rifles.
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Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.
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In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away 8 years later.
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The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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A 22 year old Chinese man needed a new nose. Instead of a transplant, a surgeon built a new nose on his forehead.
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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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