John Lennon once called an ‘emergency board meeting’ of the Beatles in order to inform his bandmates that he’d realized, while tripping on acid, that he was the second coming of Jesus.
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In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
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Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.
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Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
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In 2005, there was a TV show in Germany called “Sperm Race” where contestants’ sperm was raced towards an egg. The winner got a Porsche.
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The desire to squeeze and hug cute things comes from the same place in your brain as aggression.
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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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