On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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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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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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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 the Philippines there's a boy named "Lord Voldemort".
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People with light eye colors (like blue, green or grey) have a higher alcohol tolerance.
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A strawberry is not a berry, but a banana is.
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