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32 Strange Facts You May Not Have Known

Just bizarre, but very true.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 10 years ago in Creepy

Just bizarre, but very true.

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Studies show that people who are into kinkier sex might end up being healthier.

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In Alabama, you can easily buy a gun, but selling sex toys is totally illegal.

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Jellybeans are coated in confectioner's glaze, a shiny resin that's actually excreted from a female beetle.

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Underneath their stripes, zebras have black skin.

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Australia floated this bizarre balloon (a turtle with nipples) to celebrate Sydney's 100th year.

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An adult human is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms.

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According to some research, keeping a cat as a pet reduces the risk of heart attacks and strokes by nearly 30%.

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In Madagascar, families dig up the bones of dead relatives for a ceremony called "famadihana." The remains are then wrapped in a new shroud and reburied while the old shroud is given to a newly married couple to use on their bed.

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Star-nosed moles have such a good sense of smell that they can even track a scent under water.

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Eggs boiled in the urine of young virgin boys is considered a traditional delicacy in certain areas of China.

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During your third trimester the uterus will finish growing. In the end, it's the size of a watermelon.

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There is a Pentagon document that lays out battle plans against zombies.

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Combined, certain Asian countries consume about 13 to 16 million dogs per year and four million cats.

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In Los Angeles, a large group of people dressed up as Albert Einstein, simply to break the record of people dressed up as Einstein.

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Within three days of your death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.

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In certain cities (two examples are Bogota, Colombia, and Los Angeles), there have been times when doctors go on strike. What resulted? A large drop in the mortality rate.

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The heaviest baby boy on record weighed 22 pounds, eight ounces. He was born in Italy in 1955.

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The mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, is a 16-year-old cat named Stubbs.

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The shade of your red-berry yogurt could be carmine, a naturally red food coloring made from the dried bodies of female cochineal insects,

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Children with higher IQs are more likely to become vegetarians.

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The first toaster was made in 1893, almost 20 years before the first bread slicer.

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7 Leaf Bed and Breakfast in Seattle makes certain meals infused with marijuana.

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A girl from the small African nation of Lesotho became pregnant. The only trouble was, she doesn't have a vagina. After performing oral sex on her boyfriend, she was stabbed in the stomach. Due to an unbelievable set of coincidences, the sperm traveled from the injured gastrointestinal tract and into the reproductive organs.

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Research shows that petting your dog can lower your blood pressure.

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Everyone has mites on their eyelashes.

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Some bodybuilders and extreme athletes believe that breastmilk is the next superfood.

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Over 30% of the internet is pornography.

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If put in a line, of the blood vessels of a child would stretch over 60,000 miles. An adult's would be over 100,000 miles.

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In 1975, original Catwoman Julie Newman claimed the patent for pantyhose with a shaping band, what we know today as shapewear.

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The Matami Tribe of West Africa play their own version of football. Instead of a balll, they used a human skull.

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There is a phenomenon known as a Rat King: A number of rats, bound together at the tail by blood, dirt, and feces.

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Selfridges in the UK has the largest shoe department on the world. They stock more than 100,000 pairs of shoes, and sell more than 7,000 pairs each week.

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Before the dawn of activewear, people used to exercise naked.

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