One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
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Consumption of TNT turns urine amber or deep red, which people often mistake for blood.
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In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.
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If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
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On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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