If you put two straws in your mouth, one inside a drink and one outside it, you won't be able to drink through either straw.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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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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Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.
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The widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead-end staircases to confuse the ghosts of the people who were killed by her husband's rifles.
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