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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A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
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Mussolini dodged the Italian draft.
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27-year-old Valeria Lukyanova from Ukraine looks so much like a girl’s doll that she has become world famous as the "Living Barbie".
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A British teenager changed his name in 2008 to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined.
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More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
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If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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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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