Divorce by combat, the medieval way of ending a marriage.

In medieval Germany, husbands and wives could settle their disputes through marital duels. The man fought with one arm tied behind his back in a hole, while the woman wore weighted clothing and used a sack filled with rocks as her weapon.

If they couldn't resolve their differences peacefully, they would engage in the duel. The consequences were severe: the husband would be beheaded if he lost, and the wife would be buried alive.

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In New Zealand, this man was allowed to wear a pasta strainer on his head for his driver's licence photo after insisting he wore it for religious purposes.

He claimed he was a "pastafarian".

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Hydra is the only living aquatic creature that never dies. It regenerates, replacing its cells with new ones.

Hydra are constantly regenerating their own bodies, replacing all of their cells every 20 days. They can do that because roughly half of the cells in their bodies are stem cells, which can develop into all the different types of specialized cells you need to build, or rebuild a body.

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Nigerian man arrested for impregnating Wife, Wife's mother, and Wife's sister in UK.

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BREAKING: China is dealing with new wave of XBB coronavirus variant that could cause up to 65 million cases weekly.

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Tarrare was an 18th-century French
showman who could eat enough food to feed 15 people and swallow cats whole, but his stomach was never satisfied.

He was an insatiable glutton who ate everything from human flesh to live eels.

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​​The World’s most expensive building ever constructed is the Great Mosque of Mecca located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, with a total construction cost of $100 billion.

It's one of the oldest mosques in the world and was built over the course of centuries, starting in the year 638.

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In 1906, a man named Joe Munch was sentenced to one minute in jail.

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Small changes make a big difference.

The Smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. START NOW!

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Unripe papaya may be used as a home remedy for teeth whitening. Raw papaya might be a good bleaching agent because it contains papain and chymopapain enzymes.

These enzymes are found in unripe papaya more than in ripe papaya. Papain enzyme may be able to remove the superficial stains of the teeth and reduce the plaque development in the teeth.

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In 2013, a Milan court sentenced a homeless man to house arrest. Each night police went round to his bit of pavement to make sure he was in his sleeping bag.

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Last year in Ireland, a woman was hospitalised with "extreme stomach pain" caused by years of holding in farts around her boyfriend.

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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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There are more than 24 time zones around the world.

If the Earth's time zones were each one hour apart, then we would have 24 times zones, which sounds pretty straightforward. However, the situation is a little more complicated than that. Since many time zones only differ by 30 or 45 minutes, they don't fit into a neat and tidy 24-hour span, which means that there are more than 24, though it's hard to say exactly how many.

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Straightening people’s teeth also improves their balance.

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Your taste buds have an average lifespan of 10 days.

Adult taste buds, in general, turn over within eight to 12 days. Taste buds are clusters of polarized sensory cells embedded in the tongue, and the ones that are closer to the surface have a shorter lifespan. That's why, when you burn your tongue, it doesn't take too long until you're able to taste again.

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