Strange But True: Tuition Corpses
By Lucie Winborne
There is a Guinness World Record for "most matchsticks extinguished with the tongue."
Jimi Hendrix served as a paratrooper in the U.S. Army's elite 101st Airborne division, though an ankle injury allowed him to leave the service with a welcomed honorable discharge after one year of the three he'd signed up for.
Medical students in 18th-century Scotland could pay their tuition fees in corpses.
A statement in the end credits of the movie "Frozen" claims that Disney does not support the consumption of boogers.
After Playboy founder Hugh Hefner funded some research in the 1980s that identified a subspecies of rabbit living in the Florida Keys, it was named for him: sylvilagus palustris hefneri.
An IKEA in the Netherlands had to cancel its one-euro breakfast special because it attracted too many customers and caused highway traffic jams.
Thomas Edison invented the tattoo pen.
Rolex replaced, without charge, all the watches that had been seized by the Germans from shot-down Allied pilots during World War II.
In its lifetime, the International Space Station will be hit by 100,000 meteoroids.
During the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, two 20-pound propane bombs that were planted in the cafeteria failed to detonate. If they had, it is estimated that up to 488 students would have been seriously injured or killed.
Every year, Iceland gets wider by 2 centimeters.
The U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal, has guidelines on what to do if you should stumble across a yeti (and no, we are not talking about the cup!).
Thought for the Day: "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." -- Albert Schweitzer
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