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.
18
If you put two straws in your mouth, one inside a drink and one outside it, you won't be able to drink through either straw.
202
There is a family with a genetic condition that makes their skin blue, who have been isolated in rural Kentucky for generations.
34
It would take you a week to watch every episode of "The Simpsons" if each episode ran one after the other without stopping.
68
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.
19
95% of people feel uncomfortable when the TV volume is an odd number.
392