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- In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
- Dead Egyptian noblewomen were given the special treatment of being allowed a few days to ripen, so that the embalmers wouldn't find her too attractive.
- The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
- The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
- Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
- Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
- Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.
- The Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan "finger-lickin' good" came out as "eat your fingers off" in Chinese.
- Pogonophobia: is a phobia of beards.
- In Chinese, the words "crisis" and "opportunity" are the same.
- The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
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