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100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 4:56pm On Aug 27, 2021
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1) In 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived the first atomic blast at Hiroshima, despite being spun in the air like a tornado & landing face-first in a ditch. After a quick recovery, he jumped on a train to Nagasaki, arriving just in time for the second bomb. He survived that one too.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by billynoni(m): 5:00pm On Aug 27, 2021
Better type it well, if e no reach 100 and you telling us "continue reading by clicking one link"... Just close this thread. We dey wait.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:02pm On Aug 27, 2021
2)Squirrels masturbate to avoid catching STDs.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:07pm On Aug 27, 2021
3)In Ancient Greece, small joysticks were celebrated & seen as a sign of high intelligence & self-control. Men with large joysticks were seen as grotesque, laughable & barbaric.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:09pm On Aug 27, 2021
4) In 2005, a glass company set up a bullet-proof glass poster case containing $3 million at a bus stop in Vancouver, Canada. If anyone was able to break the glass they got to keep the cash. Nobody succeeded, despite plenty trying..

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:10pm On Aug 27, 2021
5)In 2015, two con men sold a fake Goya painting for €1.5 million, only to find out that all the money was counterfeit & they'd been paid with fake notes.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:11pm On Aug 27, 2021
6)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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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:13pm On Aug 27, 2021
7)In a German village called Fuggerei, the rent has remained the same since 1520 & not been raised once in over 500 years. It costs just less than €1 for an entire year.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:14pm On Aug 27, 2021
8-In 2019, Isabel, a Russian national, married a Pakistani man named Zahid Ali Khan. "It was love at first sight" she said. "I love him for his strong & attractive character. He is tender, understanding & above all, he loves me. I don’t care about the $740 million he inherited."

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:15pm On Aug 27, 2021
9)If you commit a crime in North Korea, it's not just you that goes to prison, your entire family goes too.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:16pm On Aug 27, 2021
10)Vladimir Putin is a black belt in Judo & a holder of the 9th-degree taekwondo black belt, one level above Chuck Norris.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:18pm On Aug 27, 2021
11) This is a scultpture, not a person. (Orlando Airport)

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:20pm On Aug 27, 2021
12) In the 1910s, there was a baseball team made up entirely of death-row prisoners, whose executions were delayed so long as they kept winning.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:21pm On Aug 27, 2021
13) Brazilian football star Ronaldinho first came to media attention when he was just 13 years old after his local team beat a rival 23-0. Ronaldinho scored all 23 goals.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:22pm On Aug 27, 2021
14) Apple has more available cash than the U.S. government.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:24pm On Aug 27, 2021
15)In 2018, a football fan from Turkey received a 1-year stadium ban. In response, he hired a crane and extended it over the stand so he could still watch his favourite team play "I've got a better view than ever now!" he claimed. .

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:25pm On Aug 27, 2021
16) Bob Marley's wife, Rita, once took a bullet to the head that was aimed at Marley in an attempted assassination in Kingston. Despite being shot in the head, she survived, due to her thick dreadlocks minimizing the impact of the bullet.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:27pm On Aug 27, 2021
17) In 2014, a Russian man, Viktor Jasinskin, attempted to rob a hair salon. However, the plot took an unexpected turn when the female salon owner, a black belt in karate, overpowered him & tied him up. She then force-fed him viagra & used him as a sex slave for 3 days.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:28pm On Aug 27, 2021
18) There were over 600 attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro by the U.S. government. Plots included: poisoned cigars, infected scuba equipment & pens rigged with poison. Castro once joked "If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I'd win Gold."

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:29pm On Aug 27, 2021
19) If a female octopus is hungry and doesn't want to mate, she'll entice the male & mislead him into thinking they're about to mate, then she'll strangle him to death and feast on his corpse in her den for a few days.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:30pm On Aug 27, 2021
20) The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) was formed on April Fools Day (1930)

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:32pm On Aug 27, 2021
21) During the filming of "The Passion of the Christ" the actor who played Jesus (Jim Caviezel) was struck by lightning on set.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:35pm On Aug 27, 2021
22) In 2006, developers in Seattle offered an 84-year-old woman $1 million for her house so they could build a mall. She declined and refused to move, so they built the mall around it.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:38pm On Aug 27, 2021
23) 919 men in a single day. That's the record for the most sexual partners in a day held by Lisa Sparks who had sex with 919 different men in less than 24 hours back in 2004.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:40pm On Aug 27, 2021
24) In Bolivia, there is a festival called 'Tinku Festival' where people from different communities meet up once a year and beat the crap out of each other for 2 days.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:41pm On Aug 27, 2021
25)A study found that women, on average, reach full emotional maturity at the age of 32. Men don't fully mature until 43 or some never at all.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:42pm On Aug 27, 2021
26) Male bees don't sting humans, only the females

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:43pm On Aug 27, 2021
27) In Luxembourg, public transport is free & minimum wage is $13.78 an hour.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:46pm On Aug 27, 2021
28) In 1998, Nigerian fraudster & con artist Emmanuel Nwude pulled off one of the largest cons in history by selling an airport to a Brazilian bank for $242 million USD. The airport didn't even exist.

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:47pm On Aug 27, 2021
29) Meanwhile, in Nigeria this week, a local fisherman captured a rare Blue Marlin Fish worth an estimated $2.6 million. But rather than cash in on his incredible catch, he decided to slice it up & ate it with his friends & family..

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:48pm On Aug 27, 2021
30) According to an ex-Castro official, Fidel Castro slept with over 35,000 women. "He slept with at least two women a day for more than four decades. One for lunch & one for supper, sometimes he even ordered one for breakfast."

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Re: 100 Fascinating, Funny, Weird And True Facts(Pics Included) by ChiefSosa(m): 5:49pm On Aug 27, 2021
31) Do not be fooled, this is not an innocent Kangaroo taking a leisurely dip in an Australian pond. Kangaroos will often attempt to entice pursuers into the water. If successful, they will then attempt to hold your head under water and suffocate you to death.

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