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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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    In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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    The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
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    Lobster-Claw Alien Abduction
    Lobster-Claw Alien Abduction
    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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    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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    Hemlock Water Dropwort
    Hemlock Water Dropwort
    There is a poisonous plant that leaves the victim with a smile on their face at the time of death.
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    In 2007, a woman named Erika La Tour Eiffel married the Eiffel Tower.
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    A Korean man called Lee Jin-gyu fell in love with his large, huggable pillow and married it.
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