Interesting and unusual facts

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    Cucumbers and courgettes are actually a slow moving mollusc, but scientists realised if they classified them as such vegetarians would have nothing to eat so they defined them as a vegetable.
     
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    When the Ice Age ended and the glaciers receded, the detritus that remained was collected from far and wide by prehistoric tribes and piled up in a central location. Over time, these rocks were worn down by the elements until little remains, other than the heap that we now call Hillsborough.
     
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    Scientists have long since known that smoking is actually good for you, but they're also aware that it makes you look cool. They didn't want preachy, self-obsessed, broccoli munching nut jobs basking in the reflected glory of cigarette smoking, so they claimed it was bad for you resulting in only genuinely cool people doing it.
     
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    Your foot is exactly the same length as the distance between your elbow crease and the base of your hand
     
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    Pentheraphobia is the intense and disproportionate fear of your mother-in-law.
     
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    It would but there would be calls for it to be put in a separate section as it wasn't all about football.
     
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    Despite him saying he didn't......lying bas***d
     
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    He also got told to go back to truck driving because he’d never make it as a singer.
     

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