The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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Eminem was offered the lead role in the 2013 sci-fi movie, Elysium. He was interested but he turned it down due to one major condition not being met; Elysium would have to be shot in his hometown, Detroit.
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A man named Heraclitus had an illness that made his body swell up with water. To try to sweat it off, he buried himself in a steaming pile of animal poo, but then overheated and died of dehydration.
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![In the UK, there's a guy named 'Major Dickie Head'.](res/uploads/fact/3233/major-dickie-head-285.jpg)
In the UK, there's a guy named 'Major Dickie Head'.
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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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There is a town in Pennsylvania named Intercourse.
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