In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe.
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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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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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A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
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