On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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In 2007, a Bosnian couple found out that they had been cheating on one another in online chatrooms... with each other.
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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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A man named Heraclitus had an illness that made his body swell up with water. To try to sweat it off, he buried himself in a steaming pile of animal poo, but then overheated and died of dehydration.
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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Oral sex was illegal in 18 states under old sodomy law until 2003 when they were invalidated.
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