In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. (The husband's lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired.)
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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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There is a family with a genetic condition that makes their skin blue, who have been isolated in rural Kentucky for generations.
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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 November 2013, a woman in Florida named Linda Ducharme married a ferris wheel.
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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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