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A Brew-tiful Surrender
The world’s longest hangover lasted 4 weeks after a Scotsman consumed 60 pints of beer.
Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer to clean streets: 5 cans of beer for a day’s work, plus €10 and tobacco.
Norway’s first aircraft hijacking ended the hijacker surrendered his weapon in exchange for more beer.
In 1986, a volcanic lake in Cameroon, Africa burped a C02 gas cloud that killed 1,746 people in minutes.
Dreams get weirder as the night wears on.
A Granny-Snacking Tale
You have taste receptors in the stomach, intestines, pancreas, lungs, anus, testicles and the brain.
In older versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl and the wolf eat grandma together.
“Rain of fish” is an annual weather event in which hundreds of fish rain from the sky onto Yoro in Honduras.
In 1971, Evita Perón’s body was exhumed and flown to Spain, where Argentina’s Ex-President Juan Perón and his new wife kept the corpse in their dining room.
Human saliva contains a painkiller called opiorphin that is six times more powerful than morphine.
A Venomous Leak of Trouble
As soon as tiger shark embryos develop teeth, they attack and eat each other in the womb.
A person can spontaneously burst into flames.
The boomslang snake’s venom causes you to bleed from every orifice of your body.
Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp.
It snows metal on planet Venus.
Flex to Impress
The mimic octopus can impersonate up to 15 marine species, including sea snakes, stingrays, lionfishes, and jellyfishes.
Male kangaroos flex their biceps to impress females.
Animals avoid power lines because they see ultraviolet flashes invisible to humans.
Bird poop is white because they don’t pee.
Red wine kills cancerous cells.
A Perfect Pair
Dynamite is made with peanuts.
Wombat’s poop is cubic.
There are completely black chickens that have black plumage, black legs and nails, black tongue, black meat and bones, and even black organs.
Before the mid-19th century, dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers.
Alpacas can die of loneliness. They always need to be bought in pairs.
A Pink-credible Mystery
A porcupine can fight off a pride of lions.
Viruses can get viruses.
Fish cough.
Women can fly airplanes in Saudi Arabia, but can’t drive cars.
Lake Hillier in Australia is a bright pink colour and scientists aren’t sure why.
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