Obscure facts ya know!

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My cat can jump over thirteen inches.

A flea can jump on your cat.


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Thirteen inches can jump over 12 inches.

Dwarf Foxes of the California Channel Islands are smaller than a large house cat.


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Marie Antoinette liked to pretend that she was a milkmaid.


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There is no Dark Side of the Moon.

Plato never said he went to, or even saw Atlantis.

He wrote of it, but as a place that he had been told about, which had ceased to exist centuries before he ever lived.


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Law & Order is based on a show from the 60s called Arrest & Trial.

Benny Hill's show was not cancelled due to its suggestive nature, but actually because the management at the T.V. Studio thought it was too old-fashioned.


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The Pudu Deer is only one to two pounds at birth, and only twenty-two pounds when full-grown.

And is very cute.


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There's a place called Peak of Eternal Light on the Moon. It is always in sunlight.

Death Valley, in America, has a number of peripatetic rocks.

No one has ever caught them at it, but they have been at it for over a hundred years.


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Land rises so rapidly in the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland that accurate maps get outdated in less than ten years. (It's a UNESCO world heritage site.)

Trepanning has been done since the Iron Age.


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I wonder if the patients lived to see another sunrise.

Actually, they did! Many of the skulls show bone growth, healing the opening!

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