You can't tickle yourself.
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On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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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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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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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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There's an isolated tribe in Zimbabwe where the people have only two toes, dubbed the 'ostrich people'.
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