Random Strange Facts

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    God is the only Simpsons character to have five fingers on each hand.
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    You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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    In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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    Japanese Closet Squatter
    Japanese Closet Squatter
    In 2008, a Japanese man noticed his food going missing, so he set up a webcam and found that a woman had been living in his closet for a year.
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    It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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    Parents receive 1 out of every 5 Valentines.
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    In 1907, Kellogg’s launched a campaign called "Wink Day" to promote Cornflakes. Women were encouraged to “wink at your grocer and see what you get” (and what they got was a free box of cereal!)
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    Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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