Random Strange Facts

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    For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
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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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    Cherophobia is a fear of fun.
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    If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate!)
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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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    Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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    Lobster Communication
    Lobster Communication
    Lobsters communicate by peeing at each other.
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    Lobster-Claw Alien Abduction
    Lobster-Claw Alien Abduction
    In 1973, two men arrived at a sheriff's office claiming to have been abducted by aliens with lobster-claw hands. Left alone in a room with a secret recording device to expose their lie, they instead continued to talk in "terribly distressed" voices about the abduction.
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