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| In China, references to this children’s show character are frequently censored, as many have noted his resemblance to president Xi Jinping. | Winnie the Pooh | 70%
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| A chicken named Mike in Fruita, Colorado, gained fame for surviving 18 months without a ____. | Head | 65%
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| Tycho Brahe, an astronomer and alchemist who, at the time, was the richest man in Denmark, wore a brass prosthetic ____ after his was cut off in a duel. | Nose | 60%
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| This US president was so fat, that he got stuck in his bathtub and needed six men to get him unstuck. | William Howard Taft | 60%
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| In 1866 this small nation sent an army of 80 soldiers out to fight. They returned with 81. | Liechtenstein | 55%
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| This philosopher from Sinope and founder of cynicism lived in a large barrel, and would hurl obscenities at passers-by and publicly defecate. | Diogenes | 30%
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| Mexican president Pedro Lascuráin held the shortest term in the country’s history, lasting only this long in office. | Under an hour | 30%
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| US president John Quincy Adams kept one of these as a pet in the White House for several months. | Alligator | 25%
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| This dictator was known for his obsession with dairy, owning a record-producing dairy cow as a pet and opening the world’s largest ice cream parlor in his country’s capital. | Fidel Castro | 25%
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| Under communist Chinese rule, Tibetan buddhists cannot legally do this without the government’s permission. | Reincarnate | 20%
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| Superstitions ran high in the Congo when, during a soccer game in 1998, all members of one team died and all members of another team survived after the field was _____________. | Struck by lightning | 20%
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| Michel Lotito was known for eating many strange things, the most outrageous of which being one of these. | Airplane | 15%
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| While in France, this famous British actor witnessed the last execution via guillotine in 1977. | Christopher Lee | 15%
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| Draco, the first legislator of Ancient Greece, was crushed to death when visiting the island of Aegina, when fans threw a massive amount of this at him. | Clothes | 5%
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| In 1848, railway worker Phineas Gage had one of these objects shot through his brain following an explosion. He somehow lived for another 12 years afterwards. | Tamping iron | 5%
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