Indians would dress up their horses as baby elephants so adult elephants wouldn't attack them!

Though they were made to look like cute baby elephants, Marwari horses were anything but. They were specially bred by combining the best characteristics of a number of other horse breeds. They were considered loyal, brave and they could withstand the heat of the desert.

This spectacular breed of horse allowed their masters to fight elephants! They dressed them up with fake elephant trunks. This made them look like baby elephants. Their enemies' elephants would instinctively not attack them, confusing them for their own babies. 

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A man ate an entire plane!

His name was Michel Lotito and he was known as Monsieur Mengetout (French for "Mr. Eat All Things") and he became famous for eating indigestible objects. He ate things like bicycles, shopping carts, televisions, and his biggest accomplishment, a Cessna 150 airplane!

The way he did it was by cutting up each object into small pieces, swallowing them, and drinking mineral oil and tons of water to digest it. It was estimated that he ate over 1 ton of metal by the time of his death. Funnily enough, he said that bananas and hard-boiled eggs made him sick! He died in 2007 at the age of 57, which seems short, but way longer than I would think for a man who made a career out of eating poisonous materials. 

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In order to serve Pufferfish, you have to risk your life!

We've talked before about how Pufferfish is the ultimate Japanese delicacy. However, one does not simply cook Pufferfish. Japanese cooks have to go through 3 years of training, because of how precise the cooking of the fish has to be.

Pufferfish poison is resistant to cooking, and there is no known antidote for it. This means that the slightest error in cooking can kill the person eating it. The chef has to remove the liver, ovaries and intestines of the fish in order to remove the poison. After the three years of training, the chef faces a final test: cook and eat their own plate of Pufferfish. I bet there are only two grades: pass or die.

Still, it's reported that 50 to 100 people die each year from Pufferfish poisoning. In many ways, the risk is what makes it such a delicacy. It explains why it's said that the best chefs can leave just enough poison in the fish to feel a little harmless numbing when you eat it!

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Humans have pubic hair to trap sexual scents!

Humans actually have the same density of hair follicles for an animal of our size. The difference is that, for the most part, our hair is very fine and barely visible...except down there. 

Although some people believe that pubic hair is just a remnant of a hairier period of our evolutionary history, the question remains, why did some hair become finer with time, while pubic hair remained thicker? Scientists believe that this is because pubic hair is used to trap scents called "pheromones."

Pheromones are sexual odors that generate sexual arousal in other people. Scientists believe that pubic hair traps these odors so that potential mates can detect them. 

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Johnny Carson caused a toilet paper shortage all by himself!

Although you might be tempted to think it was because he ate one too many Chalupas, it actually shows the power that TV personalities used to have. In December 1973, he went on his show and he said "You know what's disappearing from the supermarket shelves? Toilet paper? There's an acute shortage of toilet paper in the United States."

His words caused a widespread panic that made people run to the supermarket and buy up all the toilet paper they could find. Although he apologized for this the next day and explained it was all a joke, the hysteria he caused the day before led to an almost 3 week shortage of toilet papers!

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