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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If you put two straws in your mouth, one inside a drink and one outside it, you won't be able to drink through either straw.
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Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
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There is a family with a genetic condition that makes their skin blue, who have been isolated in rural Kentucky for generations.
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Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
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If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
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