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 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 Korea, there's a man named Lee Jin-gyu who fell in love and married his life-sized Japanese body pillow (called a "dakimakura").
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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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It would take you a week to watch every episode of "The Simpsons" if each episode ran one after the other without stopping.
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The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub lasted 99 hours!
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A waterfall known as The Devil's Kettle empties water into a hole and nobody knows where it ends up!
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