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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If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate!)
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In the Philippines there's a boy named "Lord Voldemort".
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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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There's an isolated tribe in Zimbabwe where the people have only two toes, dubbed the 'ostrich people'.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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