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 Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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A 4-foot walrus penis bone sold at auction in 2007 for $8,000.
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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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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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On some poorly researched trivia lists it is stated as a fact that a pregnant goldfish is called a twit. This is not true as goldfish lay eggs.
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Sniffologists have the job of sniffing armpits.
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