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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There is a sport called Banzai Skydiving. You throw the parachute out of the airplane first and then jump after it.
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A Missouri family sued the previous owners of a house that they had just bought after Brown Recluse Spiders "started bleeding out of the walls." An expert came in and estimated that the house was infested with 4,000 – 5,000 of the spiders.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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There's a company in Switzerland called Algordanza that will turn your ashes into a diamond for your family.
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In 2007, a woman named Erika La Tour Eiffel married the Eiffel Tower.
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