Random Weird Facts

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    In Australia, it is illegal to walk on the right-hand side of a footpath.
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    If you keep a goldfish in the dark, it will eventually turn white
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    Swimming Pigs
    Swimming Pigs
    There's an island in the Bahamas called Big Major Cay (or Pig Beach), which is only inhabited by swimming pigs.
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    Phantom Barber
    Phantom Barber
    In 1942, there was a man in Mississippi called the Phantom Barber who would break into people's houses at night and cut their hair.
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    On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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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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    There's a knife-fork hybrid called a knork.
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    Roman Farting Edict
    Roman Farting Edict
    After hearing of a man who almost died from holding in farts whilst dining, Emperor Claudius is said to have proclaimed an edict that allowed Romans to fart at the dinner table.
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