The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.
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Scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.
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There's a flower called "Hooker's Lips" that literally looks like a set of hooker's lips.
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There's a children's book titled "Where Willy Went" detailing the adventures of a sperm.
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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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Most people who read the word 'yawning' will yawn!
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