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    The Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876
    In 1876, there was a mysterious shower of meat that rained down from the sky for several minutes on a Kentucky town. It is now known as the Kentucky Meat Shower.
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    There's a competition in Sweden called Kaninhoppning, or rabbit show jumping.
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    Until 1990, the deadly poison mercury was used in about 30% of latex paints!
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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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    One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.
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    Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
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    Swimming Pigs
    Swimming Pigs
    There's an island in the Bahamas called Big Major Cay (or Pig Beach), which is only inhabited by swimming pigs.
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    In Albania, nodding your head means 'no' and shaking your head means 'yes'.
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