When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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Over the whole Twilight saga, there are over 24 minutes of just staring.
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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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Warner Brother's hated the name 'Beetlejuice', and urged Tim Burton to change it to something clever. Burton jokingly suggested calling the movie 'Scared Sheetless', and was horrified when the studio actually liked it.
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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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High Heels were originally made for men in the 16th century.
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