In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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There is a village in Ireland called Muff, and they have their own diving club.
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In England, there's a phenomenon called the "half-time kettle effect" where power use surges at half-time during England's matches in the World Cup as everyone turns on their tea kettles at the same time.
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In 2007, a Bosnian couple found out that they had been cheating on one another in online chatrooms... with each other.
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Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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If you hold farts in during the day, they'll just come out when you sleep.
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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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