Hey all, I'm still getting over my cold. So here are some random facts I find interesting or just bizarre.
- Andorra is the only country in the world that has two co-heads of state. One is a bishop and one is the French president. So Macron also has the title co-prince of Andorra.
- Alligators can shift their internal organs to change their center of gravity.
- Libraries used to lock people in with books because of fear of theft.
- There were once three popes and they all excommunicated each other.
- A pope once dug up a dead pope to put him on trial.
- The US almost went to war with Canada over a shot pig.
- Woodrow Wilson signed his love letters 'tiger.'
- We used to think cigarettes were good for asthmatics.
- In Victorian England, Ancient Egyptian mummies were eaten.
- The US Camel Corps was a thing.
- The Norwegian army knighted a penguin.
- The Winchester family is considered by some to have become cursed because of the selling of guns.
- Newgrange is one of the oldest standing structures in the world and the roof still doesn't leak.
- There is a bat with a five foot wingspan.
- Some vampire lore may have originated from what naturally happens to bodies as they decompose.
(Prompt by me)
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