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Donkey Kong arcade game was originally developed as a Popeye game,but Nintendo lost the licence.Mario was Popeye,Pauline was Olive Oyl,and DK was Brutus.
A woman almost lost custody of her children because a DNA test showed that her children weren't hers. Turns out there are humans who exist with two sets of DNA if two fertilized eggs fuse together during conception.The matching DNA was eventually found in her cervical tissue. During WWI,Albert I,the King of Belgium,fought alongside his troops while his wife,Queen Elisabeth,worked as a nurse at the front. |
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A solar panel field of the size of Austria in the Sahara desert would produce enough electricity for the whole world.
The Milky Way is currently in the middle of absorbing another smaller galaxy,the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy. A man was stopped at an airport because he was suspected of carrying a weapon,upon further inspection it was actually his abnormally large peenis. |
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There's a mystery prisoner held in total seclusion in Israel,known only as Mister X.The press isn't allowed to mention his existence.
In 2004-2005,McDonalds paid rappers to mention Big Macs in their songs and paid them $5 each time their songs got played on the radio. Taking long hot showers is actually bad for your skin,as the hot water softens the oils in your skin so that they are easily washed away,thus making it easier for your skin to dry out and become itchy. |
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Sharks camouflage themselves by taking advantage of water's light-scattering properties,cleverly using light manipulations,from exposure angles,distortion and light density,essentially hiding the shark in otherwise clear water.
A woman died of a heart attack after waking and realizing she was at her own funeral. The 1908 Olympics Men's 400m final was run by a single competitor,making it the only "walkover"final in Olympic history. |
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In Egypt,actors were not allowed to testify in court because they were seen as professional liars.
Cleopatra used to bathe daily with donkey's milk and 700 donkeys were milked for her everyday. In parts of Cambodia people have made their own trains out of bamboo after regular services stopped running. |
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bigmo 26 Mar 13 05:16
In Egypt,actors were not allowed to testify in court because they were seen as professional liars. I believe we should have a similar law in Britain for our Politicians. Cleopatra used to bathe daily with donkey's milk and 700 donkeys were milked for her everyday. My wife used to bathe in human sperm and 700,000 men were............ In parts of Cambodia people have made their own trains out of bamboo after regular services stopped running. Let's hope for their sake that their airline doesn't stop running. |
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Bruce Lee's last movie contains footage of his actual funeral with close ups of Lee in his coffin.
Slugs are attracted to the smell of beer so much,if you leave a plate of beer out,they will crawl in and drown in it. Pokemon holds a record for "Most Photosensitive Epileptic Seizures Caused By A TV Show." |
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Service dogs are trained to know when they are on duty.When their harness is on,they know they are at work.When you take it off they instantly become playful and energetic.
Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope because he was unable to hear a patient's heart due to their "great degree of fatness". It is beneficial to lick your wounds.A variety of compounds in human saliva actually do speed healing. |
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Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" spent 741 weeks on the billboard charts,from 1973 to 1988, longer than any album.
Surgeons who regularly play video games make 37% fewer errors and perform tasks 27% faster than their peers. Heavily hunted animals live in Chernobyl (nuclear disaster site),because it is safer where there are no humans. |
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Did someone actually say they thought our politicians - like Chris Huhne, Geoffrey Archer etc - are so dishonest that they would lie in open court???
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I guess most would agree with that TiptheOdds.
In 1933,a Japanese School Girl committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima.This act started a bizarre trend in Japan,and in the following year 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) jumped into the same crater. Applying male underarm sweat to a females lips helps relax women,boost their mood and regulate their menstrual cycle. King Harold of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love,the daughter of a cloth merchant.She became the Queen of Norway. |
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Carbon Monoxide is used in the USA to make meat appear fresher.This practice is banned in Canada,Japan,Singapore,and the European Union.
In 2010 an unlucky airline passenger was arrested in Ireland after Slovak security officials placed explosives in his luggage for training,then forgot to remove them before the plane took off. Eating chocolate cake for breakfast can help you lose weight. |
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When the liver fails to produce bile your poop doesn't get the regular brown pigments so it becomes white.
World now has more people dying from obesity than malnutrition. Everyone in Finland has the right to an internet connection. |
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Humans have 15 "other senses"that include things like balance,temperature,pain and time,as well as internal senses for suffocation,thirst,and fullness.
The people of Buganda,who live in Uganda,speak Luganda. Romantic love lasts a year.After that "attachment love"sets in. |
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Applying male underarm sweat to a females lips helps relax women,boost their mood and regulate their menstrual cycle.
I would like to try this one...which lips should I apply it to Bigmo? |
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I worry that your indecision may lead you down a slippery slope Tiptheodds.
 Listening to music,especially instrumental music,can release the same hormones as climaxing during intercourse and that people who have strong musical backgrounds are more susceptible. One of the best ultra runners in the world gained her ability after a seizure,warping her sense of time.She has no ability to guage the amount of time she has left to run. There’s a hole (a diamond mine) in Russia so large, helicopters aren’t allowed to fly over it for fear of being sucked in.  |
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Most lip balms are made with salicylic acid crystals-An ingredient that causes your lips to peel,so you use more lip balm.
A Japanese scientist has developed a ring tone called "Rock Melon"which carries with it a subliminal cry of a baby causing the woman's breeasts to fill with milk and thus increasing their size. Europe has banned over half the cosmetics Americans use daily due to health risks. |
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Soviet gulag prisoners would get large chest and back tattoos of Stalin and Lenin,not out of respect,but to avoid having internal organs damaged during beatings by guards who would not denigrate the images.
There is a Native American tribe of ultra-runners known as the Tarahumara.They can run 200 miles non-stop,and play running games that go on for up to 2 days without breaks.They use the toe-strike method of running instead of the traditional heel-strike. Neurosurgeons call our temples "God's Little Joke"because it's the thinnest parts of our skull,and a major artery runs beneath it. |
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Korean high schoolers study on average 16 hours a day.
Moose Boulder (Michigan)is the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world. Nyotaimori is the Japanese tradition of eating sushi off a perfectly still, naked woman’s body |
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Two Japanese officers during WWII had a contest to see who could kill 100 people with their sword,but later had to increase it to 150 because they lost count the first time.
The original script of Braveheart had the Irish fighting the Scottish,which was historically accurate.The script had to be changed because the Irish and Scottish extras refused to fight each other. The German poet Heinrich Heine left his entire fortune to his wife,but with one catch:she had to remarry "because then there will be a least one man to regret my death." |
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A single mother in Australia,who did not own a car,was convicted for vehicular homicide after her 4-year old son was killed while they were crossing the street.
Drukpa Kunley was a Buddhist monk who promised women a path to Nirvana through the use of his peenis,or "Flaming Thunderbolt" as he liked to call it.The women paid him in beer. The pilot episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog,"The Chicken From Outer Space",was nominated for an Oscar  |
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After the death of her husband,poet Percy Shelly,Mary Shelly (author of Frankenstein)kept his heart wrapped up in silk until she died.
An Italian brain surgeon had a heart attack in the middle of an operation.He powered through it when he realized his patient would never recover if he stopped. In the early 1900s,peanut butter was considered a delicacy that was only served in New York City's finest tearooms. |
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Cannibalism-especially brain ingestion-can result in Kuru,a disease that causes both uncontrollable laughter and emotional instability/depression.
A Boeing 707 took off from Paris,got lost near the Northpole,had it's wing tip blown off by a Soviet fighter jet,landed on a frozen lake afterwards and almost everyone survived. New love can make you hallucinate and imagine stuff as being too positive and even reduce your ability to understand sarcasm. |
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In Fresno,California it is illegal to annoy a lizard in a city park.
Upon seeing a picture of Yoko Ono's great-grandfather John Lennon remarked,"That's me in a former life."To which Ono replied "Don't say that...He was assassinated." Hitler once gave a medal to a man because he found his joke funny. |
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bigmo 02 Mar 13 13:32
Johnny Depp has played guitar for Marilyn Manson,Oasis and Aerosmith. Former F1 champ and guitarist Damon Hill appeared on "Demolition Man", the opening track of Def Leppard's album Euphoria. |
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The driest place on Earth is in Antarctica in an area called the Dry Valleys,which have seen no rain for nearly 2 million years.There is absolutely no precipitation in this league.
Pope John Paul II once told Steven Hawking to not study the beginning of the universe because it was the work of God. Artificial Raspberry flavor is milked from the annaal glands of a beaver. |
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Mixing alcohol with diet soda will get you more drunk than mixing it with regular soda.
Over the years scientists have discovered close to 2,000 "Bog Bodies",incredibly preserved corpses found in peat bogs dating back to the Iron Age.The skin and organs are all intact but the acid in the bog has dissolved all the bones. You can't run for office in Texas unless you acknowledge the existence of a "Supreme Being." |
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Caffeine can cause a sense of impending doom,especially on those prone to anxiety.
A new study shows children develop an interest in animals very early:toddlers prefer to look at an animal (even a snake or spider)than play with a pile of attractive toys. When you tell someone a goal or thing you’re planning on doing, it chemically satisfies your brain in a manner that’s similar to having actually completed the goal. |
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A man spent 17 years building a Lamborghini from scratch in his basement and then smashed a hole in his house to get it out.
The tale of Cinderella is as old as the 1st century BC and in the original tale she doesn't go to any party:an eagle steals her sandal and drops it in the kings lap. United States citizens can request that the White House send a greeting for a wedding,birth,anniversaries,and other milestones....for free. |
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Non-lubricated condoms are distributed among the armed forces not just for safe sex,but as an emergency water canteen.A non-lubricated condom is part of the United States Military Standard Issue Parachute Pack Survival Kit (SRU-16)and can carry a litre of water.
There is a "cult" offshoot of Christianity in China that believes Jesus is currently living in China as a Chinese woman. Anime production typically involves employing the services of 2,000 people per episode around the world and costs US $100,000-300,000 per episode. |
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Nigerian money scams we receive via email date back as far as the 1830s when they were attempted via post.
In Gmail if you write the words "I have attached"in the email,and don't/forget to attach anything then click send Gmail notices this and warns you. Astronauts on the International Space Station can vote in elections from orbit by secure email. |
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In 2007,an unmanned yacht was discovered drifting off the coast of Australia.The engine was running,a laptop was running,the radio and GPS were working and a meal was set to eat,but the three-man crew were not on board.
The genetic diversity of Cheetahs is so narrow that unrelated individuals can be as genetically similar as human identical twins. On February 8,2000,the meaning of life was auctioned on eBay.The winning bid was $3.26. |
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Tiger Moths have evolved the ability to jam bat sonar.
A large group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. Nemo actually appeared in Monster's Inc as one of Boo's toys,two years before "Finding Nemo"was released.  |
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In France,a megabyte is called a mega-octet because "byte" means co*k,and therefore "megabyte" is unintentionally rude.
The brain waves of two musicians synchronize when they are performing a duet. In 1997 for April Fools,many comic strip artists switched comics and each drew another one's comic.It was called the Great Comic Strip Switcheroo. |
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In 1943 Packard Motors promoted 3 black men to work next to whites on the assembly line causing 25,000 workers to walk off the job.
The solar system is currently travelling through an interstellar cloud that is as hot as the surface of the sun and 30 light years long. Seminal fluid can potentially contribute to romantic love.Reports suggest that the liquid that surrounds the speerm contains dopamine ("the pleasure chemical")and norepinephrine as well as tyrosine,anamino acid the brain needs to manufacture dopamine. |
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When an airplane is at a precise angle between the sun and a bank of clouds,a circular rainbow known as a "Pilot's Halo"forms around it's shadow on the cloud bank.
Trees release terpenes,a class of organic compounds,as a form of climate regulation when exposed to high temperature;which the reflect incoming sunlight away from the forest. The largest cave in the world is in Vietnam and has its own forests and clouds inside of it!  |
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Men typically fall in love faster than women and are more likely to be the first to take the lead in saying words of love in the initial stages of a relationship.
The longest recorded marriage lasted 91 years and 12 days. Neil Young once wired up his house to be the left speaker and the barn as his right speaker so that he could listen to music from a boat in the middle of his lake. |
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There was a man so dedicated to April Fools,he flew hundreds of tyres into a dormant volcano in Alaska and set them on fire.Fooling the local populace,and coast guard into thinking the volcano was active.
Every year the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulip bulbs to Canada to thank them for their aid in the Second World War. George Eastman,founder of the Kodak Corporation and inventor of the "Snap Shot" camera,shot himself in the heart after leaving a note reading: "To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?" |
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Singing when youare tensed helps you avoid depression and anxiety,study suggests.
The original Nintendo came with a Robot. There was a mysterious woman who caught JFK's assassination up close on film.The footage has never resurfaced and her identity is still unknown to this day  |
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Listening to music an hour every day helps reduce chronic pain by up to 21 percent and depression by up to 25 percent.
Professional fart smeller is a real job in China that pays about US $50,000 per year. 50% of the population of Uganda is under the age of 15. |