Various strange, bizarre, mythical and more facts

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Various strange, bizarre, mythical and more facts

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There are about 40 supervolcanoes around the world capable of claiming up to a billion lives...and we're about 24,000 years overdue for an eruption. The supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park, USA has a magma chamber that could comfortably fit the entire city of Tokyo in it.

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Over twenty percent of children report hearing voices.

Hearing voices may affect over a fifth of schoolchildren aged 11 to 13, a psychiatric study has found. In most cases, the auditory hallucinations stop with time, the findings show. But children who continue to hear voices could be at risk of mental illness or behavioural disorders. Researchers carried out psychiatric assessments of almost 2,500 children aged between 11 and 16 in Dublin. They discovered that 21%-23% of younger adolescents, aged 11 to 13, had experienced auditory hallucinations. Of this group, just over half were found to have a non-psychotic psychiatric disorder such as depression. Just 7% of older adolescents aged 13 to 16 reported hearing voices - but almost 80% of those who did had a diagnosable psychological problem.

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Disneyland’s famous Pirates of the Caribbean ride used real skeletons.

Having already cost as much as the rest of the park combined to build, it seems that creating life-like skeletons was a step too far for the wardrobe departments. The bones were instead sourced from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and were real human remains.

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In Washington state, US, there's a real-life law stating it's illegal to kill bigfoot and other sasquatch-like creatures.

Bigfoot fervor resulted in two Sasquatch preservation laws: the 1969 Skamania County Ordinance no. 6901, later amended in 1984, and the 1991 Whatcom County Resolution No. 92043. Each law purports to protect a creature that, if it does exist, is obviously endangered.

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A cloud weighs around a million tonnes.

cloud typically has a volume of around 1km3 and a density of around 1.003kg per m3 – that's a density that’s around 0.4 per cent lower than the air surrounding it (this is how they are able to float).

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In Washington state, US, there's a real-life law stating it's illegal to kill bigfoot and other sasquatch-like creatures.

Bigfoot fervor resulted in two Sasquatch preservation laws: the 1969 Skamania County Ordinance no. 6901, later amended in 1984, and the 1991 Whatcom County Resolution No. 92043. Each law purports to protect a creature that, if it does exist, is obviously endangered.

Well, we do exist!

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Humans are the only animals on Earth with a chin

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Serial killer Albert Fish would kidnap and cannibalize his child victims. After one of these incidents, he wrote a letter to the child's parents to tell them how good she tasted.