On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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Some Chinese-made hair bands were fashioned from recycled condoms.
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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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Oral sex was illegal in 18 states under old sodomy law until 2003 when they were invalidated.
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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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