Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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There's a rare breed of pig that looks like a sheep.
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The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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Australian Graham Barker has been collecting his own belly button fluff every day since 1984 - keeping it in storage jars.
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If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
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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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