The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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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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Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
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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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Chainsaws were derived from a tool originally intended to help deliver babies
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