In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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A strawberry is not a berry, but a banana is.
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In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.
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The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub lasted 99 hours!
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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In November 2013, a woman in Florida named Linda Ducharme married a ferris wheel.
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In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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