In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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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 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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In 1907, Kellogg’s launched a campaign called "Wink Day" to promote Cornflakes. Women were encouraged to “wink at your grocer and see what you get” (and what they got was a free box of cereal!)
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