One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.
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The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
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In the Philippines there's a boy named "Lord Voldemort".
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One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant!
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Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
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