Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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The widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead-end staircases to confuse the ghosts of the people who were killed by her husband's rifles.
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Chainsaws were derived from a tool originally intended to help deliver babies
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Australian Graham Barker has been collecting his own belly button fluff every day since 1984 - keeping it in storage jars.
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There is a family with a genetic condition that makes their skin blue, who have been isolated in rural Kentucky for generations.
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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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