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16 fascinating facts to feed your brain

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By Nathan Johnson

Published 9 years ago in Wow

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In medieval Germany, married couples could legally settle their disputes by fighting a Marital Duel. To even the field, the man had to fight from inside a hole with one arm tied behind his back. The woman was free to move and was armed with a sack filled with rocks.

2
Banks have therapists known as ‘wealth psychologist’ who help ultra-rich clients who are unable to mentally cope with their immense wealth.

3
The state of Ohio gives out different colored license plates for those convicted of DUI

4
Despite the NFL making more than $9 billion annually, projected to make more than $25 billion a year by 2027, pays its CEO more than $30 million a year, 68% of NFL stadium construction costs since 1923 coming from taxpayer money.

5
David Spade’s 6’2″ 350lb former assistant broke into his house in the middle of the night and beat him up with the intention to commit a murder-suicide, but Spade successfully fought him off

6
Between 2002 and 2012, college textbook prices rose 82% while overall consumer prices rose 28%

7
Following Marilyn Monroe’s death, Joe DiMaggio was so devastated he held a private funeral barring all the Hollywood elite, delivered roses to her grave three times a week for over 20 years, never remarried, and his last words were “I’ll finally get to see Marilyn.”

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In Japan, a few foreign cartoons including “Bob The Builder” was suggested to be edited, adding a fifth finger to the characters’ hands. The reason was that having only four fingers implies membership of the Japanese Mafia.

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Jason Brown, the highest paid center in NFL in 2009, quit after making $25M to become a farmer and donates his crops to food pantries

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Esurance got rid of their cartoon mascot Erin Esurance after she was featured in a massive amount of fan made pornography

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A Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WWII returned 20 years later to present his family’s 400-year-old sword as a symbol of regret. His daughter later said, if he had received a hostile reaction, he would’ve used the sword to perform a ritual suicide by disembowelment instead.

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In 2002, a Croatian diver got lost in an underwater cave and stabbed himself in the chest to avoid the agony of drowning. It was the first case of someone committing suicide while diving.

13
Based on the landmarks in the training scene of Rocky II, Rocky ran 30.61 miles before jumping around with a bunch of kids at the top of the stairs at The Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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A 37-yo German woman who suffered an accident at the age of 20 that left her blind also had Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personalities). One of her personalities, a teenage boy, can see.

15
A group of women in Kampala, Uganda who earn around $1.20/day breaking rocks into gravel sent $900 of their wages to help Hurricane Katrina victims

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In 2002, Kenyan Masai tribespeople donated 14 cows to to the U.S. to help with the aftermath of 9/11.

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