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Dark History
The barber pole is a surgery sign. π

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Dark History
Camping lanterns once glowed with radioactive thorium. β’οΈ

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That hole in your pen cap can preserve an airway. ποΈ

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Dark History
Bubble Wrap began as wallpaper nobody wanted. π«§

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Animal Oddities
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart in ocean currents, and mothers wrap their babies in kelp like blankets.

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Ironic Twists
The Frisbee's designer became a Frisbee after death. π₯

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Animal Oddities
Betty invented a tool when hers was stolen. π¦

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Animal Oddities
Chaser, a border collie in Spartanburg, South Carolina, trained by retired psychology professor John W. Pilley starting in 2004, learned the proper-noun names of 1,022 individual toys and could retrieve each by name.

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Creepy Discoveries
The Woman in the White Cap

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Bizarre Human Behavior
Lynne Cox swam Antarctica wearing only a swimsuit. π₯Ά

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Bizarre Human Behavior
He broke out of the army to lift weights β and won. ποΈ

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Unbelievable Records
A Vietnamese cave is tall enough to hide a 40-story skyscraper. ποΈ