Random Strange Facts

    142 facts tagged with Strange Facts

    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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    Obsessive nose picking is called Rhinotillexomania.
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    The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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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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    Monowi, Nebraska
    Monowi, Nebraska
    "Monowi" is a town in Nebraska that has a population of 1; the Mayor pays taxes to herself.
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    The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub lasted 99 hours!
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    There's a rare breed of pig that looks like a sheep.
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    Lobster-Claw Alien Abduction
    Lobster-Claw Alien Abduction
    In 1973, two men arrived at a sheriff's office claiming to have been abducted by aliens with lobster-claw hands. Left alone in a room with a secret recording device to expose their lie, they instead continued to talk in "terribly distressed" voices about the abduction.
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