In Korea, there's a man named Lee Jin-gyu who fell in love and married his life-sized Japanese body pillow (called a "dakimakura").
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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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Worms reportedly taste like bacon.
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The military used toilet paper to camouflage their tanks in Saudi Arabia, during the Desert Storm War.
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In Albania, nodding your head means 'no' and shaking your head means 'yes'.
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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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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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