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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Cast iron skillets used to be the leading source of iron in the American diet!
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Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated.
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The inventor of Vaseline ate a spoonful of the stuff every morning!
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In November 2013, a woman in Florida named Linda Ducharme married a ferris wheel.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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27-year-old Valeria Lukyanova from Ukraine looks so much like a girl’s doll that she has become world famous as the "Living Barbie".
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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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