Random Strange Facts

In Japan, ‘yaeba’ (or crooked teeth) in girls is considered cute and attractive. Girls actually undergo procedures to un-straighten their teeth.

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The University of Victoria offers a course in the science of Batman.

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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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There is a poisonous plant that leaves the victim with a smile on their face at the time of death.

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Eminem was offered the lead role in the 2013 sci-fi movie, Elysium. He was interested but he turned it down due to one major condition not being met; Elysium would have to be shot in his hometown, Detroit.

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You can't tickle yourself.

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A 'geep' is a very rare goat-sheep hybrid or chimera.

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The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.

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