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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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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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.
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In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away 8 years later.
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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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