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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A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
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Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter!
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A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
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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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Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
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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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