Random Strange Facts

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    Japanese Closet Squatter
    Japanese Closet Squatter
    In 2008, a Japanese man noticed his food going missing, so he set up a webcam and found that a woman had been living in his closet for a year.
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    In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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    Penguin Poop Seen From Space
    Penguin Poop Seen From Space
    Researchers find new emperor penguin colonies by looking for their poop from a satellite in space.
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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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    Larry Walters
    Larry Walters
    Larry Walters tied 45 balloons to his lawn chair and rose to 15,000 feet.
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    Japan Kit Kat Flavors
    Japan Kit Kat Flavors
    In Japan, over 200 flavors of Kit Kat have been introduced since 2000, including cucumber, ginger ale, soy sauce, wasabi, green tea, and lemon vinegar.
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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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    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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