As many as 62% of Iceland's population think it is possible that elves may exist.
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More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
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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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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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False teeth are often minutely radioactive.
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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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In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away 8 years later.
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