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3 years

The human anus can expand up to 8 inches. A raccoon can fit through a 4 inch hole.

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2 years

In 1990, a badly installed window blew out of a BA flight from the UK to Spain, causing the captain to be sucked halfway out at an altitude of 17,000 feet. The crew had to cling on to the captain's legs for over 30 minutes while emergency landing. All survived.

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In 2010, Gareth Williams, a British MI6 spy, was found dead at his London flat with his decomposing body in the bathtub, padlocked inside a bag. Police ruled his death as "accidental" concluding he died by getting into the bag on his own and accidentally locking himself inside.

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11 months

Orcas can weigh 8 tons and jump 15 feet out of the water.

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2 years

There is a man in India who held his arm up one day and decided to never put it down. It's been 45+ years.

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4 years

Karl Marx is a very famous historical figure, however hardly ever mentioned is his wife, Onya, who invented the starting pistol.

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2 years

The way this cat jumps is oddly satisfying.

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@UberFacts Go to school without a bullet proof vest.

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11 months

@Startanew12 That's the amazing part...

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This is the only existing photo of Chernobyl taken on the morning of the nuclear accident. It is so grainy because of the radiation, which started to destroy the camera film.

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3 years

@FoxHoundKnight @UberFacts Not as high as a piece of paper folded 42 times

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2 years

In 2011 a New Zealand trucker named Steven McCormack fell on a high-pressure valve which lodged in his butt and inflated him to twice his size nearly killing him. He did survive, but it took a full three days to burp and fart out the excess air.

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@Seamusisanimdom They aren't lions unless they come from Lyon in France, otherwise they are just sparkling kitties.

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2 years

In 2005, a South African man, Marius Els, adopted a baby hippo after rescuing it from a river. 6 years later, after years of bonding between the two, the hippo who he named 'Humphrey' dragged him into that same river and mauled him to death.

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2 years

Even if you encounter a penis-cutting ninja during sex, this durex condom will still prevent unwanted swapping of fluids.

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11 months

@2yrant_King She can't move with you on top of her.

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2 years

This was a Brazilian ad for condoms.

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@MsMomoManko Here's your solution

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2 years

Replacement eyelids can be made from foreskins.

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@reenaldleenald @closecalls7 You train a duck to catch them

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Merganser ducks have a top speed of 81mph, meaning they are very close to achieving time travel.

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In Ukraine, rescuers found a group of puppies under the rubble of a building. Upon closer inspection, they found that the puppies were protecting a litter of kittens!

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2 years

Merganser ducks have a top speed of 81mph, meaning they are very close to achieving time travel.

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2 years

An alignment of Earth, Mars, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter (From Africa).

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1 year

Felix Baumgartner, whilst waiting to be the only person to break the speed of sound in freefall, said looking down on earth changed his perspective. Instead of seeing division everywhere, he said he just saw one United planet full of losers who hadn't broken the speed of sound.

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3 years

Life on a boat!

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2 years

The British created inflatable armies to distract Germany away from Normandy

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This statue is called 'Melancholy' and was created by Albert Gyorgy to depict how empty he felt after losing his wife.

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3 years

@Maygodhelpyour6 @UberFacts I want to keep fucking sleeping

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2 years

A colon can completely change the meaning of a sentence. For example: - Johnny ate his friend's burger. - Johnny ate his friend's colon.

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2 years

Snow leopard parents pretend to be scared when their cubs sneak up on them to encourage them to keep practicing their stalking skills

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2 years

In the UK you can join the army at 16, but have to be 18 to play call of duty.

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3 years

@AdventureDaisy @UberFacts He returned to his old band, but never released anything under the name Gotye again.

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1 year

Tom Hardy once said: "Being alone for a while is dangerous. It's addictive. Once you see how peaceful it is, you don't even want to deal with people anymore"

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1 year

This is Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the creator of VLC media player. He refused tens of millions of dollars in order to keep VLC ad-free.

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2 years

Every Christmas, Steve Harvey sends a television to the teacher who said he would never be on television.

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1 year

In 1915, a woman arrived late at her sister's funeral. When she arrived, she demanded that her sister's coffin be raised so that she could see her one last time. Upon opening the coffin, her sister, Essie Dunbar, sat up and smiled. She went on to live another 47 years.

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@Gerald_L_Hill @UberFacts This is because T Rex's are extinct.

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@ChuckTaylorDude @UberFacts Some people with the same condition talk out of it too.

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5 years

@Chops8592 @MrHarryCole They should replace Marr at the last minute with @afneil

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2 years

In 1991 stonemasons quietly added an alien to the gargoyles of Scotland’s Paisley Abbey.

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@LikelyStoryDave @PA In 1986, Michael Foot’s appointment as chair of a disarmament committee prompted The Times headline: ‘Foot Heads Arms Body.’

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Life on a boat....

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3 years

Victorians used to have food warmers in their radiators.

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A termite road (above) and an ant road (below) both protected by a row of their soldiers in a peaceful face-off.

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This is a painting by Leng Jun. His art is considered the most realistic in the whole world.

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Genghis Khan killed so many people that the earth began to cool. 40 million people were wiped off the planet, vast areas of farmland were reclaimed by the forests and carbon levels dropped significantly.

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@MeisterSteyn @RachelRileyRR @ChukaUmunna And how tough it will be for Muslims now

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3 years

@ceejypeejy @UberFacts Had to get him out of the hospital quickly because he was taking up too mush room.

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800 years ago at All Saints Church in Hereford, England, a skilful carpenter carved this figure high up in the dark roof where nobody could see him. Five years ago they built an extra floor with bright lights for a restaurant...

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In 2014, a Russian man attempted to rob a hair salon. However, the plot took an unexpected turn when Olga Zajac, the owner of the salon, overpowered him and tied him up. She then force-fed him Viagra and used him as a sex slave for 3 days.

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On Christmas Eve in Zimbabwe, this man pulled 8 people out of a burning bus after it collided with a fuel tanker.

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3 years

The cigarette snail is so called because a bite from its venomous tooth leaves you just enough time to smoke a cigarette.

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In 2005, a South African man, Marius Els, adopted a baby hippo after rescuing it from a river. 6 years later, after years of bonding between the two, the hippo who he named 'Humphrey' dragged him into that same river and mauled him to death.

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Footage of a drone flying through an erupting volcano.

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Psychologists say at 22, we worry about what others think of us. At 44, we don't care what they think of us. At 66, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

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@mando7899 @UberFacts His new one is maga2024!

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The manul (or Pallas' cat) of Central Asia has the longest and densest fur of all the cat species.

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A colon can completely change the meaning of a sentence. For example: - Johnny ate his friend's burger. - Johnny ate his friend's colon.

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An anonymous person sent thousands of all black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all of their ink cartridges.

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2 years

This man climbed out of his eighth floor apartment window to catch the helpless three-year-old girl.

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In Cluj, Romania, you can pay for your bus ticket by doing 20 squats. Disabled and elderly people get to ride free.

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The air over Nepal is so much clearer now, you can see mount Everest from Kathmandu valley, 200km away.

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In 1963, a Turkish man renovating his home knocked down a wall in the basement and uncovered a mysterious tunnel. He followed the tunnel which led him to a hidden ancient underground city (Derinkuyu). The city once homed up to 20,000 people.

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2 years

Cats' pupils dilate when they hiccup

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@ArinsTweets @UberFacts He had better English than uberfacts

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In 1996, a man in Devon, England, spent a year hooting at owls and recording their responses unaware that is was actually one of his neighbours pretending to be an owl and hooting back.

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In 2014, a Russian man attempted to rob a hair salon. However, the plot took an unexpected turn when Olga Zajac, the owner of the salon, overpowered him and tied him up. She then force-fed him Viagra and used him as a sex slave for 3 days.

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@SavageBoston @Joe_Hurwitz @realDonaldTrump The greatest wall, the biggest wall, made from the best bricks, greatest bricks, bricks I made. The bestest brick making company. And trifle, I like trifle, the best trifle.

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@TimPatriot @UberFacts Especially as the G stands for graphics. Which is a hard G.

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3 years

Many Japanese toilets have their sink for washing your hands on top of the toilet. The water is then reused for the next flush. This saves millions of litres of water every year.

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2 years

Would you ride on the world's highest swing?

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In 2018, a heroic dad, Brad Lewis, saved his youngest son from a fatal fall from a balcony by jumping after him and cradling him to his chest, taking the brunt of the impact. Lewis suffered a fractured skull among other injuries, but has since made a full recovery.

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3 years

There was a Spongebob episode which wasn't a cartoon, but still had the same actors.

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1 year

This Homeless man's rabbit was thrown over a bridge by a passerby and he immediately jumped into the river to save her. He won an award, was given animal food and a job, and the passerby was charged with animal cruelty

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Ulm, a city in Germany, has sleeping pods located in and around the city for homeless people. When one is activated, a social worker visits them in the morning to make sure they're ok.

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In 1996 Ukraine handed over nuclear weapons to Russia "in exchange for a guarantee never to be threatened or invaded".

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3 years

Causes of death in London in 1632. What's killing you?

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There is a punctuation mark that could have saved billions of misunderstandings but nobody uses it. The reverse question mark ؟ indicates sarcasm.

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Baby Owls sleep face down because their heads are too heavy.

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In 2008, a bad dog owner dumped this wolfdog at a kill shelter when he got too big and too much to handle. Thankfully, a sanctuary took him on instead and saved his life. His DNA testing came back as 87.5% Grey Wolf, 8.6% Siberian Husky & 3.9% German Shepard.

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@ClientJournoExp @emilyhewertson Especially considering the £37bn wasted on track and trace.

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When Dutch police arrested a bird for shoplifting, Dutch media dutifully put a black bar over its eyes in all media photos to protect its identity.

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@biscuitsgod @MHMediaCharter She could retrain in cyber.

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When making a sex tape make sure you have some Disney music playing in the background. That way if it gets leaked online, Disney lawyers will take it down.

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Sped up footage of astronauts on the surface of the moon makes me think it was the inspiration for the Teletubbies.

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Meet the Jim twins. Identical twins, separated at birth and both adopted by different families. Both married and divorced women named Linda and remarried women named Betty. Both had a dog called Toy. They both named their son James Alan. They reunited at age 39.

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Tom Hardy once said: "Being alone for a while is dangerous. It's addictive. Once you see how peaceful it is, you don't even want to deal with people anymore"

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Ulm, a city in Germany, has sleeping pods located in and around the city for homeless people. When one is activated, a social worker visits them in the morning to make sure they're ok.

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@ChrisCR8IV @thealleyways_ @GeorgePointon_ I went to the zoo once, but they only had one animal there, a dog. It wasn't a very good zoo.

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@SeanBissettPGA @UberFacts That part of the dance?

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In South Korea, stores package their bananas together in various ripeness stages so you can eat them over several days without them going brown. They call them 'one-a-day' bananas.

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In Japan, there is a restaurant called “The restaurant of mistaken orders” which only employs waiters with dementia so you never know what food you’re going to get.

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In 1986, an Indian flight attendant, Neerja Bhanot, was aboard a plane that got hijacked by terrorists. The terrorists were targeting Americans, so Bhanot hid their passports & helped them escape. 340 people escaped, but she was shot dead while shielding passengers to the exits.