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2024-04-16 16:11:14 In ancient Egypt, couples were considered married whenever they moved in together- wedding ceremonies were reserved for the upper classes.

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2024-04-16 13:25:09 Potato poisoning can cause paralysis, coma, and hallucinations for days. If left untreated, also death.

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2024-04-09 11:30:47 There is a Guinness world record for the longest amount of time needed to create an official government – it is held by Belgium who took 541 days to form an official government after the federal elections of June 2010.

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2024-04-02 16:48:19 This is Rape-aXe, an anti-raping device for women. The woman inserts it like a tampon, with an applicator, and any man who tries to rape the woman impales himself on the barbs and must go to an emergency room to have the Rape-aXe removed.

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2024-03-20 16:22:04 In January 2007, during a meeting with Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin brought in his Labrador in front of the German Chancellor, who has a phobia of dogs.

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2024-03-19 11:11:46 God and Jesus are the only characters ever depicted in The Simpsons with all 5 fingers.

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2024-03-17 16:08:14 An increasingly common method for Brain Surgeons to ensure that a semi-conscious patient is ok during surgery is to have them play a musical instrument or sing during the procedure. Various patients sung opera and even have played saxophone, guitar, banjo, violin while under the knife.

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2024-03-14 20:45:38 There is a hotel in Kenya that also serves as a giraffe sanctuary, and the giraffes stick their heads into the windows to get snacks at breakfast time.

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2024-03-05 10:57:50 Pablo Escobar had so much cash that, at one point, he was spending $2,500/month on the rubber bands to hold all his cash.

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2024-01-29 16:16:34 The longest recorded sniper kill was made last year by Ukrainian, Vyacheslav Kovalsky, taking out a Russian soldier from 2.36 miles (3.8km) away using a custom rifle called "Lord of the Horizon." This feat breaks the previous record held by a Canadian sniper at 2.2 miles (3.54km) in Iraq.

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