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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One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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If you pronounce the names of products wrong in an Apple Store, employees are not allowed to correct you.
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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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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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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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There is a Swedish religion called Kopimism whose sole tenet is that all knowledge should be available to everyone - and thus, using CTRL+C and CTRL+V are sacred acts.
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