Cherophobia is a fear of fun.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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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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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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The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.
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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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