In 1518, a "dancing plague" struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. It remains unexplained.
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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 Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.
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In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
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Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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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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