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15 random facts

Hey all, I'm still getting over my cold. So here are some random facts I find interesting or just bizarre.

  1. 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.
  2. Alligators can shift their internal organs to change their center of gravity.
  3. Libraries used to lock people in with books because of fear of theft.
  4. There were once three popes and they all excommunicated each other.
  5. A pope once dug up a dead pope to put him on trial.
  6. The US almost went to war with Canada over a shot pig.
  7. Woodrow Wilson signed his love letters 'tiger.'
  8. We used to think cigarettes were good for asthmatics.
  9. In Victorian England, Ancient Egyptian mummies were eaten.
  10. The US Camel Corps was a thing.
  11. The Norwegian army knighted a penguin.
  12. The Winchester family is considered by some to have become cursed because of the selling of guns.
  13. Newgrange is one of the oldest standing structures in the world and the roof still doesn't leak.
  14. There is a bat with a five foot wingspan.
  15. Some vampire lore may have originated from what naturally happens to bodies as they decompose.
(Prompt by me)

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