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In Sydney in 1998 there was about a month or two where tap water was contaminated so people had to boil their water just to drink it.
 
The comic Nemesis the Warlock features a minor character called Grobbendonk, whose name was taken from a road atlas of Belgium.
 
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There is a species of monkey that rests in tree tops by tying their extremely long penises around branches and dangling from them while they sleep.
 
In the 1974 National Hockey League amateur draft, at 183rd overall, the Buffalo Sabres selected Taro Tsujimoto.

He was imaginary, the management of the team basically wasted a pick to make a joke.
 
_01 said:
()()() is not a palindrome but ))(()) is.

The Japanese spider crab has the longest leg length proportional to its body size of all arthropods (which includes actual spiders and the entire insect family). It's also the most horrifying of all arthropods.

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The largest land dwelling arthropod is the coconut crab. Which allegedly ate the body of Amelia Earhart.
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The largest arthropods to ever exist were Pentecopterus and Arthropleura (a giant fucking millipede) both were about 6 ft long.
 
Count groudon said:
There is a species of monkey that rests in tree tops by tying their extremely long penises around branches and dangling from them while they sleep.
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In the US we call them "African Americans" -- but some live in trailers where they have evolved to nest with white women instead.
 
During WWII the 12th Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier division was issued candy instead of cigarettes with their rations, since most of the division was recruited from the Hitler Youth and were under 18.
 
During WWII, before Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were so optimistic they'd destroy the US Pacific Fleet, they drew up plans for the occupation of Hawaii and the west coast. They went as far as printing money to be used in the occupied territories.
 
Yop Yop said:
Everyday life in the 3rd world my friend
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Also it used to be that way in the communist block. People would joke that you get free beer in your tap because sometimes it would have that golden color.
That brings me to another fun fact: the reason internet speed is so fast in formerly communist countries is because during the communist era, phone lines were extremely underdeveloped. Barely anyone had a phone at home and people would just usually use a shared one near the entrance to the given apartment block (hell even my family still didn't have one in the early 90s, my dad would use CB radio to call the cops or the doctor). So when we opened to the world in the 90s it was mostly a blank slate, and during a good time too because a lot of technological advances would undergo at the time. Therefore we could start off with brand new technologies while countries like say the UK still have to deal with primitive copper wiring as old as the telephone itself in some areas.
 
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