There was an animal described as “something like a cross between a horse and a gorilla” called a Chalicothere.
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A 28-year-old demolition worker attempted to commit suicide by washing down nitroglycerine pills with vodka then he tried to explode the nitroglycerine by repeatedly ramming himself into a wall.
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SETI scientists keep bottles of champagne on ice wherever they’re observing, just in case.
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In 2006, a prisoner got himself a job in prison repairing mail bags, and he climbed inside one and mailed himself out of prison. Later that day while hiking along a railway line he was questioned, and let go by a police officer.
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The origin of saying “Bless you” after someone sneezes dates back to at least 77AD and may be due to (amongst other things) people originally believing that a person’s soul could be thrown from their body when they sneezed.
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For approximately $68 a head, the U.K.-based business will send “professional, polite, well dressed individuals” to attend your funeral or wake, and will weep, wail and generally appear sad about the passing of whatever person happens to be filling the casket for about two hours.
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The longest contiguous man-made structure in the world is the Trans-Siberian Railway, which connects Moscow to Vladivostok with 5,772 miles of track. The Great Wall of China, which is twice the length of the Railway at 13,171 miles long, is not contiguous, as is made up of hills, mountains, and trenches in addition to actual wall.
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Regardless of you’re gender, sexual orientation, or experience with anal sex, your anal sphincter relaxes slightly while sexually aroused.
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In Futurama, Bender’s apartment number is 00100100. This is a binary representation of the ASCII character “$”.
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There are up to 24 dialects of American English.
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When Alan Shepard was waiting for liftoff to become the first American in space, a reporter asked him what he was thinking about. He replied “The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.“
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Sexual orgasms can sometimes trigger a NDE or near death experience, causing one to feel like they are leaving their physical body.
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Stilton blue cheese is known to frequently cause odd, vivid dreams.
