Two brothers from a set of triplets tricked prison authorities in Russia when one brother swapped places with the other to give him a brief taste of freedom.

Rather than returning, the freed brother ran off with his brother's girlfriend. It took years for the authorities to realize they had actually been fooled.
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A 60-year old truck driver sued the Tokyo hospital, where he was born after discovering that he was accidentally switched with another newborn in 1953.

He ended up with a poor single mother while the other baby grew up to own a real estate company under his rich biological parents.

The hospital was ordered by court to pay ¥38m (£227,000) for damages.
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Joan Ginther, a woman with a PhD in maths, won the scratch lottery 4 times totally winning $20 million by figuring out the algorithm of the ticket production.

Bolivia's largest prison, San Pedro, has a society within itself, with no guards inside the walls. It has shops and restaurants run by inmates.

Inmates elect their own leaders, get jobs to pay for their cell's rent, and can even live with their wives and children.
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Nauru, a country in oceania, has the most overweight population in the world with over 95% of its population overweight.

Incidentally, it doesn’t have McDonald’s…
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According to a study done in China in 2015, doctors are paid about 2,524 Yuan or $406 a month.To give that some perspective, a hotel receptionist in China can earn 2,507 Yuan, or about $403 USD per month.
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Japan is the only country in the world with more pets than children.

The country has just 17 million children under the age of 16, but almost 20 million cats and dogs
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If your boyfriend remembers your eye color after the first date, then you probably have small boobs.🤷‍♂️

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In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
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There is a wheeled alarm clock available named, "Clocky," which runs away and hides, forcing you to get out of bed to shut it off.

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In November 2021, a student was reportedly sentenced to death in North Korea for smuggling copies of Netflix's “Squid Game” into the country. Six others who watched the show were sentenced to five years of hard labor.

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During the Qin dynasty in China, the penalty for being late to government jobs was death.

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The term "blowing smoke up their butt/behind/arse" derives from the 1700s when blowing tobacco smoke in someone's anus was a method used for resuscitating drowning victims.
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In 2002, Iraq’s Vice President suggested a fight between George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein, to be refereed by Kofi Annan, as a way to settle their disputes without going to war.
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Humans nearly went extinct about 70,000 years ago when the total population dropped down to only a few thousand people.
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In 1993, a man named James Scott purposely damaged a levee and caused a massive flood of the Mississippi River only to stall his wife from coming home so that he could party.

His actions flooded 14,000 acres of farmland, destroyed buildings, and closed a bridge. He was convicted of "intentionally causing a catastrophe" and is still in prison serving a life sentence.
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In ancient Japan public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and the longest.
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Women's farts generally smell worse than men's, due to higher levels of hydrogen sulfide.
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The Allied Forces once plotted to feminize Adolf Hitler by injecting estrogen into his carrots.
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In 1871, lawyer Clement Vallandigham was defending a client accused of murder.

In demonstrating how the victim might have accidentally shot himself, he accidentally shot himself.

He died. His client was acquitted.

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