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All letters addressed to Santa in the United States go to Santa Claus, Indiana

Engineers that designed the Voyager Space Mission planned things out so it would avoid planetary encounters during Thanksgiving and Christmas

There is a village in Peru where people settle the previous year’s grudges by fist fighting. They then start the new year off on a clean slate

Telling scary ghost stories is an old Christmas Eve tradition that has died out in the past century

Some zoos accept donated Christmas trees as food for their animals

It is estimated that the song “White Christmas” by Irving Berlin is the best selling single in history with over 100 million copies sold

During Christmas in Newfoundland people called Mummers dress up in crude disguises and go from house to house dancing and playing music while the hosts try to identify them

Paul McCartney earns nearly half a million dollars every year from his Christmas song, which many critics regards as his worst song ever.

A large part of Sweden’s population watches Donald Duck cartoons every Christmas Eve since 1960

Many of the perpetually open Denny’s restaurants were built without locks, which was problematic when they decided to close down for Christmas for the first time in 1988

During the Christmas of 2010, the Colombian government covered jungle trees with lights. When FARC guerrillas (terrorists) walked by, the trees lit up and banners asking them to lay down their arms became visible. 331 guerrillas re-entered society and the campaign won an award for strategic marketing excellence.

Nearly all of the most popular Christmas songs including ‘Winter Wonderland’, ‘Chestnuts roasting…’, and ‘I’m Dreaming of a white Christmas’ were written by Jewish people

During the Christmas of 1914 (World War 1), a truce was held between Germany and the UK. They decorated their shelters, exchanged gifts across no man’s land and played a game of football between themselves.

In 1918 and for the past 40 years, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has sent the city of Boston a giant Christmas tree as a thank you for their support after the 1917 Halifax explosion

In 1867, a Boston industrialist heard Charles Dickens read A Christmas Carol and was so moved he closed his factory on Christmas Day and gave every one of his employees a turkey

Between the 16th and 19th centuries was what is known as a “little ice age” where global temperatures were several degrees lower than normal. It is for this reason that many Christmas carols and songs stress a “White Christmas”.

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is the only record to get the UK Christmas Singles Chart Number One twice, once in 1975 and again in 1991.

The Nazi party tried to turn Christmas into a nonreligious holiday celebrating the coming of Hitler, with Saint Nicholas replaced by Odin the “Solstice Man” and swastikas on top of Christmas trees.

The US playing card company ‘Bicycle’ had manufactured a playing card in WW2 s that when the card was soaked, it would reveal an escape route for POWs. These cards were Christmas presents for all POWs in Germany. The Nazis were none the wiser!

An artificial Christmas tree would have to be reused for more than 20 years to be “greener” than buying a fresh-cut tree annually

We frequently abbreviate Christmas as X-mas because of ancient tradition. X is the Greek letter “chi” which is an abbreviation for the word “Christ” in Greek

Japanese people traditionally eat at KFC for Christmas dinner, thanks to a successful marketing campaign 40 years ago. KFC is so popular that customers must place their Christmas orders 2 months in advance

The people of Oslo, Norway donate the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree every year in gratitude to the people of London for their assistance during WWII.

Christmas purchases account for 1/6 of all retail sales in the U.S annually

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Even if you don’t find them to be cool, they actually make them feel they’re cool in front of others.

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Researchers at Rutgers University used MRI imaging to find out exactly what happens in your brain when you’re aroused. What they found is that different regions of the brain become activated in response to stimulation of the vagina, cervix, clitoris, and nipples.

According to The State University of New York study, semen can help fight depression. Semen contains chemicals that elevate mood, increase affection, and induce sleep. It also contains cortisol, which is known to increase feelings of affection in the brain.

The average female orgasm lasts twenty seconds—fourteen seconds longer than the male orgasm.

-321° F is the temperature at which sperm banks store donor semen. At this temperature semen can be stored indefinitely.

While giving birth, some women have been known to experience orgasm.

Besides humans, bonobos (a type of chimp) and dolphins are the only animals that have sex for pleasure.

It takes two tablespoons of blood to get the average penis erect.

Despite many people using it as a common excuse to avoid sex, sex can actually relieve a headache since it releases the tension, which restricts blood vessels in the brain.

Studies have shown that eighty-five percent of men who die of heart attacks during intercourse were cheating on their wives. Hmmm, guilty consciences I suppose.

Greek couples have sex an average of 138 times a year, placing them at the top of the world sex league. Japanese couples have sex just forty-five times a year, which puts them in last place.

During an average man’s lifetime, he will ejaculate approximately seventeen liters of semen, which amounts to about half a trillion sperm.

When a man ejaculates, the initial spurt travels at twenty-eight miles an hour—faster than the world record for the 100-meter sprint, which currently stands at 27.49 miles an hour.

For both men and women the heart rate averages 140 beats per minute at orgasm. That’s considered a tachycardia.

Marilyn Monroe, the most celebrated sex icon of the twentieth century, confessed to a friend that despite her three husbands and a parade of lovers, she had never had an orgasm.

A teaspoon of semen contains approximately five calories. Half an hour of intense sex burns off an average of one hundred to two hundred calories.

The vibrator, a common sex toy for women, was originally designed in the nineteenth century to fight the anxiety-related symptoms of hysteria. There was even a play about it, In the Next Room (also known as The Vibrator Play), performed in 2009.

A chicken egg could accommodate the number of female ova necessary to repopulate the earth to its present population.

The earth could be repopulated to its current level using the amount of sperm that could fit in an aspirin capsule.

In the Aztec culture avocados were considered so sexually powerful that virgins were restricted from contact with them.

Chocolate contains phenylethylamine, the same feel-good chemical responsible for the ecstatic high people experience in sexual attraction and love.

Researchers have repeatedly observed female penguins exchanging sexual favors with male penguins that aren’t their mates in exchange for pebbles they will use to build nests for their babies. Yep, female penguins engage in a bizarre form of prostitution.

The earliest known illustration of a man using a condom during sexual intercourse is painted on the wall of a cave in France. It is dated between twelve thousand and fifteen thousand years old.

In ancient Greece the common slang for oral sex was “playing the flute.”

During World War I members of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) discovered you could use semen as invisible ink. They stopped using it after they realized how badly it smelled when it got old.

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Even though the male orgasm seems to get all the attention, it turns out women get the last laugh when it comes to climaxing. The average female orgasm lasts 20 seconds – 14 seconds longer than a male’s six-second one.

The average woman will have sex more than 3,000 times over the course of her reproductive years.

Sneezes, along with orgasms, are the only physiological responses that cannot be voluntarily stopped once they have started.

Four popes have died during sex.

This is one of the weird sex facts that most of us have not heard about before. During intercourse, your inner nose swells just as your breasts and genitals will. This is most notably due to the increased flow of blood while having intercourse.

According to a study from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, the amygdala (the part of the brain involved in fear and anxiety) shuts down during a female orgasm.

The German for “contraceptive” is Schwangerschaftsverhütungsmittel. By the time you’ve finished saying it, it’s too late.

A female chimpanzee in a fit of passion has the strength of six men.

The “G-spot” was nearly called the Whipple Tickle- after Professor Beverley Whipple, who coined the expression that we know today.

People who are open to talking about sex are happier with their sex lives, according to Live Science.

For those who are wondering if their grandparents and great-grandparents still have sexual intercourse, the overwhelming answer is yes. Approximately one third of women in their 80’s continue to have sex with their husband or boyfriend, so long as they are both in good enough physical health to do so.

Telling a convincing lie to someone is much more difficult when you find them sexually attractive.

About 100 million couples around the world have sex every day. That means around 65,000 couples are having sex right now.

85% of women are very satisfied with their partner’s penis size.

Women who are prone to migraines tend to have a higher sex drive than those who are not.

Some people are wired to have more sex than others. Scientists are not entirely sure why this is, but it is true in both males and females. Some will want more, while others will want less; it just depends on how their brain is wired.

Orgasms are good for your health. They can lower a woman’s risk of heart disease, stroke, breast cancer and even depression.

Sex counts as a workout! 30 minutes of active sex will help you burn around 200 calories.

Seven Viagra tablets are sold every second.

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Fashion is a subjective concept, right? So technically I can’t say these people are making poor fashion choices.

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The Ig Nobel Prize was created by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research back in 1993. It’s a parody of the Nobel Prize and some of the things that people have done to win this award will make you crack up.

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Remind me not to grab the rails on the subway.

You just can’t help the urge to snooze when you’re running around on no sleep. You’ll see someone yawn, which of course will make you yawn. Suddenly, you’re asleep on a stranger’s shoulder on the way to work.

However, you should avoid these terrible places to sleep at all costs. Sure, you may be tired, and you may find yourself with the irresistible urge to nap on your desk after seeing these, but…

…wow, now I’m sleepy…

They really downgraded coach these days.

Stranger danger!

When the mood strikes…

I’m actually impressed with the wall squat.

“Can we just LEAVE?”

This adequately sums up Finals Week.

America’s finest.

A student who actually LIVES at the library.

Bus-hacking?

When they give you lemons…you do this.

There’s NO way he’s sleeping…

How many sleepless nights does it take to get here?

Or here?

Ouch!!!

These positions CAN’T be healthy.

…Zzzzzzz.

Yaaawwwwnnnn…I think it’s about time for a five minute snoozefest. Just as long as it’s not in one of these places.

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Craigslist is a strange place. We’ll just leave it at that.

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A hoax is when someone tries to convince a lot of people that something is real when it’s not. A successful hoax is when people actually believe it.

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Pentheraphobia: Fear of your mother in law.

Your fear of heights will seem silly compared to these 25 phobias that get a little more specific…and totally bizarre! These supposedly spine tingling terrors range from normal everyday items to spooky creatures who don’t actually exist.

I mean…how can someone be afraid of CHEESE??

Globophobia: Fear of balloons popping.

Ombrophobia: Fear of rain.

Geniophobia: Fear of chins.

Tryophobia: Fear of holes.

Pogonophobia: Fear of beards.

Ippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia: Fear of long words.

Lipophobia: Fear of fats in foods.

Genuphobia: Fear of knees and/or kneeling.

Sanguivoriphobia: Fear of vampires.

Ergophobia: Fear of work.

Emetophobia: Fear of vomiting.

Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.

Triskaidekaphobia: Fear of the number 13.

Nomophobia: Fear of being out of mobile phone contact.

Ancraophobia: Fear of wind.

Ephebiphobia: Fear of youth.

Xanthophobia: Fear of the color yellow.

Myrmecophobia: Fear of ants.

Turaphobia: Fear of cheese.

Anthophobia: Fear of flowers.

Hylophobia: Fear of wood, forests, or trees.

Tetraphobia: Fear of the number 4.

Omphalophobia: Fear of belly buttons.

Scriptophobia: Fear of writing in public.

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Very interesting list of bizarre unsolved crimes.

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Bizarre and strange restaurant names.

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