There is a village in Ireland called Muff, and they have their own diving club.
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Gary Kremen, founder of match.com, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.
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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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Neil DeGrasse Tyson considered becoming a male stripper to make money during graduate school. When he visited the club, the dancers came out with lighter fluid soaked jockstraps and set them ablaze while dancing to “Great Balls of Fire.” He chose math tutoring instead.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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