Random Strange Facts

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    The first man to survive going over Niagara Falls later died from slipping on an orange peel.
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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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    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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    Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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    It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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    Japanese Closet Squatter
    Japanese Closet Squatter
    In 2008, a Japanese man noticed his food going missing, so he set up a webcam and found that a woman had been living in his closet for a year.
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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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    It would take you a week to watch every episode of "The Simpsons" if each episode ran one after the other without stopping.
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