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A russian woman in the 1700s gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets in just 40 years with the same man.

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Only two countries in the world are not allowed to sell Coca-Cola officially: North Korea and Cuba.

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The Japanese who survived the Titanic crash was called a coward in his country for not dying with the other passengers.

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When a person dies, his sense of hearing is the last to go.

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Dead people can get goose bumps.

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Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.

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Elephants and chimpanzees can display behavior patterns similar to post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

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There's a hotel in Bolivia made almost entirely of salt, complete with salt beds and chairs.

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Chewing gum is banned in Singapore.

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Herrings communicate
through farts.

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Nikola Tesla once "shook the poop out" of a constipated Mark Twain with an experiment.

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There's a town in Norway called Hell.

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A man married a dog in India as atonement.

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Before the eraser, bread was used to remove pencil marks.

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Charles Richter, who invented the Richter Scale, was a nudist.

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The Nazis tried to teach dogs to talk and read.

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Rats laugh when tickled.

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Male bees

die

after

having sex.

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Philophobia is the fear of falling in love.

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There is a small village in France called "Pussy".

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Nintendo had a chain of sex hotels in the 1950s.

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Sprite may be one of the best remedies for hangovers, according to studies.

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In Korea and Japan, there is a Cat Cafe where you can go to drink coffee and hang out with cats for hours.

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Women in ancient Rome wore the sweat of Gladiators to improve their beauty and complexion.

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John Lennon admitted he used to be cruel to his woman and hit her as a youngster.

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In Belarus, it is illegal to applaud in public.

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The SEX Party in Australia is looking to legalize marijuana, euthanasia, censorship, abortion, and tax the church.

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NASA scientists have discovered stars that are
cool enough to touch.

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A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground.

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It is believed that Isaac Newton died a virgin.

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In 2009, a man was arrested for being naked in his own house in Springfield, Virginia.

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Hippopotamus' milk is pink.

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Greek philosopher Chrysippus is said to have died of laughter after getting his donkey drunk, trying to eat figs.

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Female kangaroos have three vaginas.

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Anatidaephobia is the weird fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.

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A 13-year old boy in Florida was once arrested for excessive farting in school.

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The Incas' measurement of time was based on how long it took to boil a potato.

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The most successful Pirate Captain was a Chinese prostitute with 80,000 sailors working for her.

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A chinese man sued his wife for being
too ugly

and the Court agreed awarding him US$115,000.

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If Thai policemen break the law, they are forced to wear a Hello Kitty armband.

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There's a restaurant in Japan using monkeys as waiters.

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Sheep can recognize each other in pictures.

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Only female

mosquitoes

drink blood.

Males are vegetarians.

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When Twister was introduced in 1966, critics denounced the game as "sex in a box".

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In the Bible, God sent two bears to murder 42 children because they had mocked a man for being bald.

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The NAZIs considered Native Americans to be part of the Aryan race.

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Only about 15% of the Sahara Desert is covered in sand.

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"Tinku" is a festival in Bolivia where people beat each other for 2 or 3 days straight.

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Humans put a man on the Moon before they put wheels on luggage.

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Musician Eddie Van Halen blamed guitar picks for giving him tongue cancer.

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A man named Robert Lane named his two sons "Winner" and "Loser."

Winner grew up to be a criminal, and Loser became a detective.

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Christopher Columbus thought that the world was shaped like a woman's breast.

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In 1989, Margaret Thatcher pleaded with Mikhail Gorbachev to keep the Berlin Wall up.

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The extreme sport of "Volcano surfing" was invented in 2004 at Cerro Negro, Nicaragua.

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The Helicodiceros is a plant that mimics the anus of a dead animal, in order to attract flies for pollination.

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The wombat's poop is cubic.

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There's a ghost town in Arizona called "Nothing." It has one abandoned building and a couple of signs.

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Although Porsche is owned by Volkswagen Group, Volkswagen Group is owned by Porsche Holdings.

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Despite his profanity-laced songs, Eminem doesn't allow swearing in his home.

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It's illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church in Alabama.

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It's illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on in North Dakota.

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Samoa is 24 hours ahead of American Samoa, even though they are just 70 km (43 mi) apart.

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There's a museum of broken relationships in Croatia.

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Disney was sued by a biologist for defaming the character of hyenas in The Lion King.

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In an isolated village in the Dominican Republic, about 1 in 50 children are born appearing to be girls but grow male genitalia during puberty.

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Cornflakes have more genes than people do.

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In 2008, UK police granted a weapons licence to a 7-year-old child.

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A species of hermaphroditic worm has a strange way to deal with loneliness: It injects sperm into its head to reproduce.

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In Japan, a festival called Kanamara Matsuri, or "Festival of the Steel Phallus," celebrates the defeat of a vagina demon by an iron penis.

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In 2014, a deceased two-headed dolphin was discovered washing up on shore in the waters off Turkey's west coast.

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A 30-year-old woman from India, who claimed to have fallen in love with a snake, got married to the reptile in 2006.

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From July to September 2001, heavy downpours of red-coloured rain fell sporadically on the state of Kerala, India.

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Fried tarantulas are a delicacy in Cambodia.

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In the 90s, the Pentagon considered developing a chemical that caused bad breath (halitosis), making it easy to identify guerrillas trying to blend in with civilians.

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Lamas in ancient Tibet were boiled in butter before being embalmed.

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13 children under the age of 10 have been issued with shotgun certificates in the UK over the past 3 years.

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Doctors in Japan discovered in 2017 a tiny brain inside of a 16-year-old girl's ovarian tumor while removing the growth.

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In 16th century Europe, it was believed that eating a tomato could turn you into a werewolf.

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A naked mole rat's four front teeth are located outside its mouth, and their lips are sealed just behind the teeth, preventing soil from filling its mouth while he is digging.

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People really do look like their names. According to research your name might shape your face.

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Strange Facts 114 Facts about Strange Things

Strange Facts
114 Facts about Strange Things