The widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead-end staircases to confuse the ghosts of the people who were killed by her husband's rifles.
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In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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If you're typical, you can guess someone's sex with 95% accuracy just by smelling their breath.
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Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter!
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Historically, sweat has been an active ingredient in perfume and love potions.
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The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
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