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Despite sharing a beak, the platypus and duck are natural enemies.

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Regularly eating sushi significantly increases the likelihood of seaweed poisoning.

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The umbrella was originally invented as a goose deterrent.

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The panda's distinctive black and white camouflage worked much better prior to China adopting colour in 1978.

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Singapore has five official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin, Tamil and Pirate.

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Following the Salem witch trials, sales of pointy black hats in colonial Massachusetts fell by over 30%.

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Centaurs are completely immune to the effects of vampirism.

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Egyptian God Horus had the largest beak of all known bird-headed deities.

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'Where's Waldo' books were initially published by the CIA attempting to recruit observant children.

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The Spice Girls began as an Mi6 counter-terrorism unit, turning to music after a failed hostage rescue mission in Mosul. #girlpower

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Rick Astley's crippling heroin addiction inspired him to write smash hit 'Never Gonna Give you Up'.

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The Trojan horse is the first known example of the modern siege-Piñata.

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Freddie Mercury composed 'Another One Bites the Dust' after reading John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath'.

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Sir Gordon Ramsay recieved his knighthood after rescuing the Queen from a burning car.

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Bats use sonar to connect to wifi.

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The word 'spangled' comes from Kevin Spangler, who designed the US flag.

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Before being domesticated, wild chickens lived in large underground hives.

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Popular dutch painter Vincent van Gogh was horrified upon learning that humans do not regrow ears.

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Before being marketed by Hasbro, the game 'Jenga!' was a popular Yorkshire pub game known as 'Buggerplanks'.

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A deleted scene in Starwars episode V shows Han Solo being consumed by a Sumatran Tiger.

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Tennis was invented during the Spanish-American war, when President William McKinley removed a snow shoe in order to return an enemy grenade