People with light eye colors (like blue, green or grey) have a higher alcohol tolerance.
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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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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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There is a city called "Batman" in Turkey.
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Consumption of TNT turns urine amber or deep red, which people often mistake for blood.
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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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