During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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Donkey Kong was Mario's pet that he'd abused. Donkey Kong kidnapped Mario's girlfriend as revenge for the mistreatment.
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Foreign accent syndrome is a rare brain disorder which causes people to speak in a foreign accent involuntarily.
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There was a cable network called The Puppy Channel that, for 3 years, broadcast only broadcast footage of puppies playing.
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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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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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