Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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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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Chainsaws were derived from a tool originally intended to help deliver babies
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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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There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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