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    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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    Corn Flakes Origin
    Corn Flakes Origin
    Corn Flakes were invented by John Harvey Kellogg as part his campaign to prevent masturbation.
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    In 2005, there was a TV show in Germany called “Sperm Race” where contestants’ sperm was raced towards an egg. The winner got a Porsche.
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    Your home is ten times more likely to have a fire than be burglarized!
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    In 2007, a Bosnian couple found out that they had been cheating on one another in online chatrooms... with each other.
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    Until 1990, the deadly poison mercury was used in about 30% of latex paints!
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    In Korea, if you do not receive any gift on Valentine's day then all the singles go to Korean restaurants and eat black noodles to celebrate (or mourn) their single status.
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    Lobster-Claw Alien Abduction
    Lobster-Claw Alien Abduction
    In 1973, two men arrived at a sheriff's office claiming to have been abducted by aliens with lobster-claw hands. Left alone in a room with a secret recording device to expose their lie, they instead continued to talk in "terribly distressed" voices about the abduction.
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