Consumption of TNT turns urine amber or deep red, which people often mistake for blood.
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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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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A Korean man called Lee Jin-gyu fell in love with his large, huggable pillow and married it.
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In the Philippines there's a boy named "Lord Voldemort".
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Chainsaws were derived from a tool originally intended to help deliver babies
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In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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