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's a knife-fork hybrid called a knork.
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It would take you a week to watch every episode of "The Simpsons" if each episode ran one after the other without stopping.
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Longest officially recognized place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
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The 'Bicycle Tree', found near Brig o' Turk in Scotland, has consumed an entire bike that now hangs out of its bark.
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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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Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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