A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
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In 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300,000,000 Yen robbery remains unsolved to this day.
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Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money. The rest exists only on computers.
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The Rain Man (Laurence Kim Peek) was the only savant known to science who could read two pages of a book simultaneously - one with each eye.
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Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese Seaman, sent a message in a bottle in 1784 that his ship had wrecked. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.
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It has been estimated that a bite from a grizzly bear can crush a bowling ball.
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In Mohave County, Arizona, if someone is caught stealing soap, they must wash themselves with it until it has gone.
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