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1. The city of St. Paul, Minnesota was known as pigs eye landing until its name was changed in 1841.
2. People suffering from Delusional parasitosis beleive that insects and other parasites are nesting in their skin.
3. The baron of Arizona James Reavis(1843-1914) created the largest land fraud in U.S. history when he forged papers laying claim.
4. Potatoes from northern France and Belgium are checked to make sure they haven't grown around buried explosives from World War 1 & 2.
5. The giant beach worms of Australia can grow up to 8ft. in length.
6. With hundreds of taste buds located all over their bodies, catfish, can taste objects just by touching them.
7. Nigeria's putty-nosed monkeys combine individual calls to create simple sentences-A talent previously thought to be uniquely human!
8. On April 25 2006, a Seattle police officer shot at a gunman hitting the cylinder in the criminal's revolver rendering the crook.