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Katey Perry has a cat named Kitty Purry

n 2009, Ukraine amended the criminal code, making pornography illegal the country, unless it’s prescribed for medical uses.

There's a Japanese artist and designer who makes wedding rings embedded with the the sound waves for "I do".

In 1972, Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant, fell 33,000 feet in an aircraft explosion and survived. She now holds the Guinness world record for highest freefall without a parachute.

Male orangutans can be attracted to women with red hair. One male, Hsing Hisng, has even ripped pictures of Nicole Kidman out of magazines and placed them in his enclosure.

The colors red, yellow, and orange are not recommended for use in kitchens if you're ting to loose weight as they ate known to stimulate appetite.

The world's first genetically-engineered bioluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) house plants have been created and could eventually be used as a functional light source.

A jellyfish's mouth also serves as an anus.

Jack Daniel's Last Words: "One last drink, please."

The reason why old books have such a distinct smell is because hundreds of organic compounds in the pages break down over time and release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.

The Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WW2 returned years later to present his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city as a symbol of regret.

There are scrolls from the Edo period of Japan that suggest fart battles took place. The drawings show men blasting farts at other men, women, and even a cat.

There's a wife-carrying championship that takes place in Finland every year where the winner receives his wife's weight in beer.

It's possible to sequence DNA on gum and cigarette butts found in the street and 3D print a very accurate face from it.

The US Air Force researched a “Gay Bomb”: A non-lethal bomb containing really strong pheromones that will make the enemy forces attracted to each other. It won the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize.

Dr. Seuss invented the word 'nerd'.

At the 1912 Olympics, a marathon runner quit and went home to Japan without telling officials and was considered a missing person in Sweden for 50 years. In 1966, he was invited to complete the marathon. His time: 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds.

In 2013, a homeless man from Oregon robbed a bank for $1, then casually sat down and waited for police to arrest him so he could receive healthcare in prison.

Male kangaroos flex their biceps to impress females.

The company that makes Nutella uses about 25% of the world's supply of hazelnuts.

At age 12, Simon Cowell was arrested for hijacking a bus with a toy gun.

Sloths only poop once a week. The event is called 'the poo dance' because they wiggle their butts.

There's a video game called "Lose/Lose" that deletes a random file on your computer every time you kill an enemy.

There is a prison in Brazil that allows inmates to pedal stationary bicycles, providing electricity to a nearby city in exchange for reduced sentences.

All employees of Ben & Jerry’s get to take home 3 free pints of ice cream every single day!

Valentine Tapley promised to never shave again if Abraham Lincoln was elected president. He died in 1910 with a 12-foot-long beard.

There's a book titled "Everything men know about women" that has over 100 blank pages.

In France, it is legal to marry a dead person.

When Voltaire was asked to renounce Satan on his deathbed, his last words were: " This is no time for making new enemies."

The distinctive smell in the air after it has been raining I'd caused by bacteria called 'actinomycetes'.

Army ants are used as “natural sutures”. Their jaws are so powerful, natives staple wounds by forcing ants to bite them and break off the body.

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