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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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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Mary Jane was killed by Spiderman's radioactive semen in the limited comic book series "Spider-Man: Reign".
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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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There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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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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