In 1518, a "dancing plague" struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. It remains unexplained.
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John Lennon once called an ‘emergency board meeting’ of the Beatles in order to inform his bandmates that he’d realized, while tripping on acid, that he was the second coming of Jesus.
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In November 2013, a woman in Florida named Linda Ducharme married a ferris wheel.
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There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.
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In 2006, a woman was found in her London flat, skeletonized, after 3 years of being dead – with the TV still running.
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