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1. In 2010, a Florida jail forced some inmates to watch The Polar Express on repeat. One inmate filed a lawsuit claiming that “I hear those little kids screaming through my brain.”

1. The Tidong tribe of Indonesia believes that if a newlywed couple holds in their poop for three straight days, their marriage is less likely to fail.

1. The International Debutante Ball is a biennial, invitation-only event hosted in the New York City Waldorf Astoria hotel that presents well-connected young ladies from upper-class families to high society. The participation fee alone starts from $22,000.

After her husband died, Elizabeth Feodorovna became a nun, hoping to atone for his sins—but her dark fate seems like proof that it was too little, too late.

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1. Ursula Parker, the girl who plays Jane in Louie, is a violin child prodigy. She played at Carnegie Hall at the age of 8.

1. Crows have the ability to remember human faces and if they don’t like you they won’t forget you either. The children of the crows would later carry on the same grudge.

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If you're glued to every Criminal Minds and Law & Order episode - or just a forensic science geek - this is the list for you. These forensic ...

1. NOAA has had a 400 sq ft underwater research base for 30 years; long-term residents are called 'aquanauts.'

You have probably wondered how things would be if you could read other people’s minds. Some people use their intuition for this, but if you are not so perceptive, there is only one choice left: learning to read people’s body language. It is a well-known fact that we get over 55% of information through nonverbal communication. Allan Pease, an Australian body language expert, wrote about this. Mimics, gestures, and other body movements can unmask a person and tell you what they really think or…

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An excerpt from Sarah Weinman’s new book, The Real Lolita, follows the life of Sally Horner. Horner was kidnapped by Frank LaSalle, a crime that helped inspire the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

1. In 2006, a prisoner named Richard Lee McNair got himself a job in prison repairing mail bags, and he climbed inside one and mailed himself out of prison. Later that day while hiking along a railway line he was questioned, and let go by a police officer.

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Patience Gray’s Honey from a Weed is one of the most important and best-loved cookbooks of the 20th century, yet its author remains little known beyond a small circle of food writers and critics. S…

1. Roman slaves wore collars of iron with messages like a modern dog collar, for example, this one, which reads "I have run away; hold me. When you shall have returned me to my master, Zoninus, you will receive a solidus." #slave #history #master #wtf #shocking #weird #strange

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