Random Weird Facts

There is a town called Okay, OK. It has a population of 600 people.

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In 1973, two men arrived at a sheriff's office claiming to have been abducted by aliens with lobster-claw hands. Left alone in a room with a secret recording device to expose their lie, they instead continued to talk in "terribly distressed" voices about the abduction.

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Jason Earles played as a teenager in Hannah Montana, but he was actually born in 1977.

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In 1876, there was a mysterious shower of meat that rained down from the sky for several minutes on a Kentucky town. It is now known as the Kentucky Meat Shower.

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Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.

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The widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead-end staircases to confuse the ghosts of the people who were killed by her husband's rifles.

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Dolly Dimples, a 555 lbs. woman, lost 443 lbs in one year by eating nothing but baby food.

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If you put two straws in your mouth, one inside a drink and one outside it, you won't be able to drink through either straw.

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