For the last few months of his life, President James Garfield was fed through his rectum by his friend Dr. Doctor W. Bliss.
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Source: https://nypost.com/2016/09/22/the-inept-doctor-who-killed-president-garfield/
In 1384, the 10 year old Hungarian girl Jadwiga (Hedwig), was named the King of Poland.
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Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jadwiga
Cannibalism is illegal in Idaho, one of very few states that has an explicit law against it. However, it’s a legitimate defense to have committed cannibalism “under extreme life-threatening conditions as the only apparent means of survival.”
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Source: https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title18/t18ch50/sect18-5003/
If you tickle a rat day after day, it will start ‘laughing’ whenever it sees you.
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Google and Yahoo have both used goats to “mow” the grass at their corporate headquarters and datacenters.
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Source: https://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/what-is-yahoo-doing-with-goats.html
More than 6,000 medals, marking the first year of Pope Francis, had to be recalled after being available for purchase a single day because the name Jesus was misspelled Lesus.
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Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/11/pope-recalls-papal-medal-spelling-error-its-jesus-/
In 2007, Scotland spent over £100,000 changing their national slogan from ‘The Best Small Country in the World’ to a “vibrant” new slogan of ‘Welcome to Scotland’.
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Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7114861.stm
Nearly 40 million tons of dust is blown from the Sahara to the Amazon basin each year.
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Source: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-how-much-saharan-dust-feeds-amazon-s-plants
When filming the 2013 movie “Man of Steel”, the actor of Superman, Henry Cavill, refused to shave his chest when putting on the costume and used “The Death of Superman” comic for his reason why; Superman had a hairy chest in that comic.
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Source: https://www.comicbookmovie.com/superman/video-henry-cavill-on-why-he-wanted-his-superman-to-have-a-hairy-chest-a81936