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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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.
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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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