There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, and only some 20 million people.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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In 1943, a Pan Am Airline chef snuck whiskey into passengers' coffee to warm them up on a winter flight. When asked what kind of coffee they were being served, he improvised "Irish Coffee," creating the now-famous cocktail.
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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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There's a flower called "Hooker's Lips" that literally looks like a set of hooker's lips.
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Sniffologists have the job of sniffing armpits.
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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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