In Mohave County, Arizona, if someone is caught stealing soap, they must wash themselves with it until it has gone.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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A man named Ziona Chana lives in a 100 room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram and has the world's biggest family with 39 wives, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren.
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The world's longest traffic jam took place in Beijing, China. It was over 60 miles long and lasted 11 days.
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A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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A man called Dean Karnazes ran 350 miles in 80 hours with no sleep, ran a marathon in the South Pole in -25 °C temperatures without snowshoes, and ran 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days.
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In the mid-90’s, Coca Cola recalled an advertising poster due to a hidden sexual image.
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When a drone bee mates with a queen, its ejaculation is so powerful that it can even be heard by the human ear.
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