Obscure facts ya know!

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Vietnam is the largest exporter of cashews in the world, and the second largest exporter of rice.

The seductive spy Mata Hari was killed by a firing squad in 1917.

Her head was preserved in France's Museum of Anatomy.

In the year 2000, it was discovered that her head and all relevant paperwork were missing.

And have never been found, nor the disappearance or theft ever solved.

Canada has a longer coastline than Russia... I'm still trying to visualize the truth of this, and it's not easy.

All the huge uninhabited or nearly-uninhabited Canadian islands up north certainly help though!

I can see Russia from my window!

No one is sure how many people Leonard Lake and Charles Ng killed.

The remains were dissolved in acid, burned, then buried.

Though Lake killed himself using a cyanide capsule while in police custody, Ng is still alive, still fighting his eventual execution, and has cost California a minimum of twenty million dollars.

And he is disgusting.

A fossil named "Lucy" is perhaps the most famous human fossil ever discovered. The bones were dug-up in Ethiopia in 1975----at the time, the oldest human remains in the world (3.2 million years old). They were named after the song playing on a tape recorder at the time: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

No one has ever been able to prove who was responsible for the Piltdown Hoax.

Or what the purpose of this elaborate set-up was.

Punic wars, (Wars between Rome and Carthage, around 211 BC),

In 1969 archaeologist discovered a sunken Punic war ship with cannabis on board.
It's thought the herb was brewed into a tea to help calm rowers' nerves.

Many of the Punic war ships held near 400 men, they were built for speed and ramming.

The United States is now the world's leading producer of oil and natural gas, more than both Russia and Saudi Arabia.

The Pedro Mountain Mummy was the main source for theories of an ancient race of tiny people in North America.

Romeo and Juliet were real lovers in Verona, Italy in the early 1300s----and they really did die for each other. The story was passed from writer to writer until Shakespeare found it, apparently in a 1562 poem by Arthur Brooke, called Romeo and Juliet, containing a rare example of loves constancie.....

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Spencer Tracy supposedly never divorced his wife to marry Katherine Hepburn because he could not obtain a divorce from his wife.

That was because she, the wife, was supposedly Catholic.

But she was not Catholic, and even if she was, she would have easily been granted a divorce due to adultery, since Hepburn and Tracy were blatant about their relationship.

And, what is wierder, Tracy is buried beside the wife that he ignored for twenty years.

A cow spends 18 hours of every day, chewing.

Discovery and excavation of Moche tombs in Peru indicate that many of their cities were ruled by female priestesses/queens, not by exclusively male rulers as originally thought.

Both male and female rulers were buried in tombs containing human sacrifices.

That's extremely COOL!!

In March, 2008, the Texas Alcoholic Commission seized 411 bottles of vodka with rattlesnakes in the vodka.

Supposedly, some people believe that this is an aphrodisiac.