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25 Dec 2013, 3:05 pm

Sounds like there is a good reason that there are no Soucouyants in Michigan.

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25 Dec 2013, 5:19 pm

Fingernails grow 4 times as fast as toenails.

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26 Dec 2013, 3:59 am

^ I wonder: do fingernails grow faster in the wintertime than in the summertime? Seems that way in regards to my fingernails.

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27 Dec 2013, 8:21 am

Followers of Ruth Norman, also known as Archangel Uriel, sometimes fainted if she touched them.

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28 Dec 2013, 7:52 am

A UN report says that while 64% of the world population has access to a toilet, 86% has access to some sort of mobile phone.

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28 Dec 2013, 10:11 am

All British army tanks made since 1945 have tea-making facilities. They really do take their tea seriously in Britain......

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28 Dec 2013, 8:43 pm

The national food of Trinidad & Tobago is roti.

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29 Dec 2013, 4:09 pm

The house where Sharon Tate and her friends were murdered was the honeymoon home of the movie star Jean Harlowe.

Her husband committed suicide in the master bedroom, leaving a strange note that no one understood.

Some people still believe that he was murdered.

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29 Dec 2013, 4:27 pm

Neil Armstrongs quote when he first walked on the Moon '' That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind '' was actually a misquote, he was supposed to say '' That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind ''

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29 Dec 2013, 5:22 pm

Minnie Mouse's full name is Minerva Mouse.

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29 Dec 2013, 5:24 pm

Clark Gable wore dentures.

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30 Dec 2013, 4:17 am

There is actually a weight limit for donating your body for science. What it is, I don't know.

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30 Dec 2013, 2:32 pm

After death, some people's bodies do not decay, they turn into adipocere.

One of the most famous examples of this is on exhibit in the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.

She is known as 'The Soap Lady'.

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30 Dec 2013, 5:29 pm

<--- Never heard of the word adipocere until Sylkat mentioned it.

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30 Dec 2013, 5:59 pm

As of 2013, in MLB, the San Diego Padres are the only team to have NOT thrown a no-hitter or a perfect game. Additionally, they have never had any of their players hit for the cycle.

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30 Dec 2013, 6:01 pm

The body of St. Therese of Lisieaux, displayed in a case, to which hundreds of people make pilgrimages yearly, is not actually her uncorrupted body, but a wax figure.

Her real body, or skeleton, according to some information, is buried beneath the glass case that the wax effigy lies in.

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