In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
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The widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead-end staircases to confuse the ghosts of the people who were killed by her husband's rifles.
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There's a knife-fork hybrid called a knork.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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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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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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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 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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