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In 1754, Ursulina de Jesus, a woman from Sao Paulo, was accused of interfering with her husband's fertility by the use of magic. She was executed by burning in public.

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18 years after Vietnamese man Ma Van Nhat had surgery for injuries sustained in a car crash, doctors found surgical scissors in his abdomen.

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Converse shoes is a Nike Company since 2003.

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On a QWERTY keyboard a typist's fingers cover 20 miles a day; on a Dvorak keyboard it's only one mile.

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The longest human nipple hair was 17 cm (6.6 in) long.

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You can die instantly after being struck by dropping coconut.

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Ernest Hemingway received 36 shock treatments for depression, some of which impaired his memory so badly that he couldn't remember his name.

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Englishman Ken Edwards ate 36 Madagascan cockroaches in one minute in 2001.

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According to a Pew study, 56% of Americans think the use of atomic bombs in Japan in 1945 was justified, down from 63% in 1991.

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There's an actual course on Harry Potter being taught at Ohio State University.

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The original Oreo cookies have a 71% to 29% cookie-to-cream ratio.

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Roald Dahl, author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," was a taster for the Cadbury chocolate company when he was a boy.

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"Aha Ha" is a species of Australian wasp.

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Cuttlefish can change color almost instantaneously to match their surroundings and avoid predators, despite being colorblind.

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Fucking Hell is a beer named after the village of Fucking in Austria.

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OpenCola is a brand of open-source cola, where the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable.

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Adrian Carton de Wiart served in the Boer War, WWI and WWII; was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a POW camp; and tore off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them.

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The Hawaiian Pizza was invented in Canada and is the most popular pizza in Australia.

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Franz Kafka hoped to write budget travel guides, but could not find any funders for this endeavor.

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The most decorated American WW1 veteran from Texas was an undocumented Mexican immigrant named Marcelino Serna.

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Pennsylvania still charges its citizens an 18% tax on alcohol to pay for damages of the 1936 Johnstown flood.

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5% of people never experience a headache in their lifetime.

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People who swear more often are more honest than those who don't, a study found.

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There is an underground vault in Denmark containing every Lego set ever.

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According to a U.K. study, the average woman spends 17 years of her life dieting.

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There are only 3 countries in the world that don't offer paid maternity leave: Suriname, Papua New Guinea and the United States.

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Norway's maximum prison sentence is 21 years, after it abolished life in prison in 1971.

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Abortion is legal

in Tunisia,

an Arab country,

since 1973.

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Pizza Hut was founded by two brothers who borrowed $600 from their mother in 1958 to open a pizza place.

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With its trunk, an elephant can reach items at heights of up to 7 m (23 ft) and dig for water under mud or sand.

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