When you shave a guinea pig it looks like a little hippo.
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The desire to squeeze and hug cute things comes from the same place in your brain as aggression.
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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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In November 2013, a woman in Florida named Linda Ducharme married a ferris wheel.
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In 1907, Kellogg’s launched a campaign called "Wink Day" to promote Cornflakes. Women were encouraged to “wink at your grocer and see what you get” (and what they got was a free box of cereal!)
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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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If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
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