John Lennon once called an ‘emergency board meeting’ of the Beatles in order to inform his bandmates that he’d realized, while tripping on acid, that he was the second coming of Jesus.
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Former U.S. Congressman John Jenrette once had sex with his wife on the steps of the Capitol Building during a break in a late night Congressional session.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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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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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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In Australia, it is illegal to walk on the right-hand side of a footpath.
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In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are asleep.
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In Korea, there's a man named Lee Jin-gyu who fell in love and married his life-sized Japanese body pillow (called a "dakimakura").
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