It’s World Folklore Day — which means it’s time for us to dive into the world’s strange folk tales and creatures. Last year, we featured a cavalcade of bizarre things from all over the globe. This time, however, we decided to stay closer to home. We recently talked about some curses in U.S. folklore, but …
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An inmate manages to escape the jail by digging a secret tunnel under the facility’s walls. This prison escape story is as old as time, familiar from movies like Shawshank Redemption. Recently, these events played out scene by scene in the Czech Republic. However, there’s a bit of a plot twist — the escapees weren’t …
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The giraffe fun facts we know are that they are the tallest mammals in the world but did you know that they can sprint? Are giraffes your favorite animal, too? Giraffes can go a couple of days without water and actually get most of the liquid from leaves, seed pods, and bark they eat off …
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Blue crabs are generally considered a Maryland specialty, especially when drenched in Old Bay seasoning. Although the Old Line State might be the most famous for them, the crabs also show up in the Carolinas, Delaware, New Jersey, and even Louisiana. The corn fields of Iowa, however, are decidedly crab-less. It’s weird, then, that blue …
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It’s a small world. Somewhere out there is somebody, or likely several people, who share the same name with you (unless your parents cursed you with something like X Æ A-Xii). That’s true even for criminally-minded birds. Two stores in U.K. cities 195 miles apart are struggling with a bizarre issue. At both establishments, a …
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It’s not April anymore, the month that has a national circus holiday, but there’s no bad time for circus fun facts. “Circus” comes from the Latin word circle or ring. Rome’s Circus Maximus could fit an audience of over 150,000 Romans. A typical circus is a traveling company of acrobats, performers, trained animals and clowns. …
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What do you think of the ride known as the merry-go-round? The national day for them is today, July 25th and here’s a bunch of fun facts, too. Some German carousels were made with two stories or decks. Because of transportation, they weren’t common in other places. Golden age carousels had manes carved so that …
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The craziest of the fun facts about monkeys is that monkey babies are considered adults at four or five years old! Can you imagine that in human society? Groups of monkeys work together to take care of the young monkeys and to play and cuddle with them. Monkey babies are considered adults once they hit …
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Do you know all these koi fish fun facts? National Koi Day was earlier this month on July 7th and here are all the facts you don’t already know. The Largest The world’s largest koi is over 90 pounds! Many of these fish grow up to three feet long and weigh dozens of pounds. The …
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The year 2023 was a weird one when it comes to animals and cocaine. First came the movie Cocaine Bear, loosely based on the real story of a black bear that devoured a discarded cocaine shipment. A few months later, the Discovery Channel broadcast the documentary Cocaine Sharks. It speculated that sharks could be in …
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