A man named Heraclitus had an illness that made his body swell up with water. To try to sweat it off, he buried himself in a steaming pile of animal poo, but then overheated and died of dehydration.
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Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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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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People with light eye colors (like blue, green or grey) have a higher alcohol tolerance.
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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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Chainsaws were derived from a tool originally intended to help deliver babies
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In 2007, a Bosnian couple found out that they had been cheating on one another in online chatrooms... with each other.
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