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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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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Kim Jong Un was voted Most Sexiest Man Alive by The Onion and ended up as real news in China.
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In Japan, watermelons are grown into the shape of a square so they are easier to stack and transport.
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Until 1990, the deadly poison mercury was used in about 30% of latex paints!
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There's a Finnish man named Ari Kivikangas who spends his life 24/7 in front of his webcam.
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Mathematical proof that 1+1=2 takes 162 pages to explain in the three volume work “Principia Mathematica”.
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