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Strange Facts & History
A fistfight broke out during Paul Revere's funeral when his casket was dropped by a drunken pallbearer.
The Olmec Indians of ancient Mesoamerica believed it was bad luck for a mother to raise her own child. They often swapped or sold their newborns.
In Cambodia, male prostitutes outnumber female prostitutes by a ratio of three to one.
Because of the rotation of the Earth, a sound wave moving from East to West will travel slightly farther than the same wave moving from West to East.
The pop music duo Hall & Oates originally planned to call themselves "Dreamboat."
The U.S. "Duck and Cover" campaign of the 1950s was conceived by a U.C. Berkeley improv group. They submitted the idea to Civil Defense as a prank.
Famed frontiersman Daniel Boone never wore a coonskin cap. He did, however, suffer from a medical condition that caused his breasts to lactate.
Just 48 hours before Charles Lindbergh's historic flight, a rival pilot was caught trying to pour sugar into the fuel tank of Lindbergh's plane.
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