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There is a shellfish which does not only parasite a fish but literally replace its tongue. This is the only known case of complete replacement of an organ.
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The famous sign “Peace” (☮) was the insignia of the Wehrmacht 3. Panzer-Division (1941–1945).
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According to a 1990 US Study, the more educated a person is (ie. the higher the degree the person obtained), the more he / she masturbates.
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The success of the arcade game Space Invaders caused a shortage of 100-yen coins in Japan, which forced the government to increase their production subsequently.
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King Edward II of England (1284 – 1327) is believed to have been killed by the insertion of a red-hot iron rod in his rectum.
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In Ancient Greece, a man was considered more virile if he had a small penis.
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Arthur Rimbaud suddenly abandoned poetry in 1875, and was later known as a weapons merchant in Abyssinia.
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only man who survived both atomic bombs (at least the only that was officially recognised)...
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It is impossible to put a finger in the nose, one in the anus and one in each ear simultaneously.
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80 billion human beings have been born on the planet since the first humans, and half of them in the last two millennia !
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During the American Civil War, the general Lee’s Southern troops called themselves “Lee’s Miserables”, as a tribute to Victor Hugo’s book, Les Misérables.
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It’s only in 1990 that the World Health Organization took the decision to withdraw homosexuality from its list of mental diseases.
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For the american edition of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, 217 475 trees were cut.
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