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10) Armadillos are the only animals apart from humans to get leprosy.
9) Drinking too much water can kill.
In June 2007, Jennifer Strange, 28, died hours after taking part of the contest, “Hold your Wee for a Wii,” in which participants had to avoid urinating (or vomiting) after drinking a large quantity of water. She drank approximately two gallons before dropping out.
8) Dolphins can create their own toys.
They blow air bubbles underwater and as it rises, the dolphins make a game to swim through them.
7) Is there anything more valuable than life?
Seppuku is a form of ritual suicide that commonly used by those who felt death was a better option than dishonor. To begin seppuku, a small knife is used to create a deep incision into the belly. Then, another cut is made horizontally across the abdomen for disembowelment.
6) Kill yourself to prove a point.
Pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles was rumored to have thrown himself into Mount Etna in Sicily on grounds that he would be reincarnated as an immortal god. However, he is better known as the founder of the ideology of the four elements: air, water, fire, and earth.
5) Kill yourself to prove a point (the sequel).
US Lawyer Clement Vallandigham accidentally killed himself while trying to enact his view as to what had happened at the crime scene. His assumption was that the pistol was a prop and unloaded. On a lighter note, the defendant was acquitted.
4) Treeman exists.
Dede Kosawa, after being infected with HPV-2 as a teenager, lived a majority of his life as ‘Treeman of Indonesia’ due to the many cutaneous horns covering his body. A surgery was conducted where the horns were sawed off and skin grafts taken from unaffected areas, such as his butt, were placed throughout his body.
3) Adolf Frederick is known as ‘the king who ate himself to death’.
His last meal consisted of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, kippers, champagne, fouteen servings of semla served in a bowl of hot milk.
2) Men can give birth.
There is a condition called ‘fetus in fetu’ in which an unborn twin is absorbed into its twin. The unborn baby then lives like a parasite in its host. The most recent case was Sanju Bhagat who, in June 1999, was taken to the hospital when he was suddenly unable to breath. At the hospital, doctors were horrified to discover a mutated body from within Bhagat’s stomach.
1) Horns can grow on humans.
Zhang Ruifang, a 101 year old Chinese woman, has a two inch long horn on the side of her left forehead. There is evidence of another horn growing on her right forehead.
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