The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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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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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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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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