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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False teeth are often minutely radioactive.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
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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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