Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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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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A Korean man called Lee Jin-gyu fell in love with his large, huggable pillow and married it.
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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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Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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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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