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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In Korea, there's a man named Lee Jin-gyu who fell in love and married his life-sized Japanese body pillow (called a "dakimakura").
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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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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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Longest officially recognized place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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Mary Jane was killed by Spiderman's radioactive semen in the limited comic book series "Spider-Man: Reign".
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