A dairy cow can produce more milk when listening to music.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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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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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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