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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The 'Bicycle Tree', found near Brig o' Turk in Scotland, has consumed an entire bike that now hangs out of its bark.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Parents receive 1 out of every 5 Valentines.
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Cast iron skillets used to be the leading source of iron in the American diet!
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There are around 200 frozen corpses on Mount Everest.
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Each year, approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically attacked and beaten by their wives.
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The U.S. military's dried food rations can be re-hydrated with urine!
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