In Korea, there's a man named Lee Jin-gyu who fell in love and married his life-sized Japanese body pillow (called a "dakimakura").
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A Korean man called Lee Jin-gyu fell in love with his large, huggable pillow and married it.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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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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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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