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Miscellaneous
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MISCELLANEOUS CATEGORIES |
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AMUSING FACTS : MISCELLANEOUS |
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- The Canadian holiday Boxing Day got its name from the custom of giving. Servants were given boxes which had money hidden inside them from their employers. The servants would have to break the box into pieces to get the money.
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- In November 1999, two women were killed by a lightning bolt. The underwire located in their bras acted as a electrical conductors, and when the lightning bolt hit the bra they left burn marks on their chest.
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- In Japan, the number four is considered to be unlucky because the Japanese word for four sounds very similar to the word death.
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- In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him.
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- There is a type of coffin made that can be used as a wine rack or picnic table before its final use.
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- A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body.
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- The average day is actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds. We have a leap year every four years to make up for this shortfall.
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- The USS Abraham Lincoln has five gymnasiums on the ship and a basketball league with 22 teams.
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- The more a person struggles to get out of quicksand the faster they will sink. Staying still, and being calm will actually make the body float in the quicksand because the body is less dense than the quicksand is.
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- The titan arum flower is the largest flower in the world and gives off a horrible odor that smells like rotting flesh when it blooms.
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- The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.
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