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10 WEIRD DETAILED FACTS

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  1| Sumo wrestlers make babies cry for good luck. iStock While most parents do what they can to prevent or stop their babies from crying, that's not always the case in Japan. That's because it's a 400-year-old Japanese tradition that if a sumo wrestler can make your baby cry, it means he or she will live a healthy life. During a special ceremony, parents hand over their infants to sumo wrestlers who bounce their precious tots up and down and sometimes even roar in their little faces to get the tears flowing. "He's not a baby that cries much, but today he cried a lot for us and we are very happy about it," mother  Mae Shige  said at a 2014 event. 2 A 155-year-old mousetrap successfully caught a mouse in 2016. Shutterstock They say if it ain't broke, don't fix it—and that turned out to be the case for a very early design of the mousetrap. In the mid-1800s, inventor  Colin Pullinger  unveiled his Perpetual Mousetrap and claimed that it would last a ...

15-WEIRD AMAZING FACTS

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Spider webs were used as bandages in ancient times. A woman who lost her wedding ring found it 16 years later on a carrot in her garden. One-quarter of all your bones are located in your feet. Blood donors in Sweden receive a text when their blood is used. Sunglasses were originally designed for Chinese judges to hide their facial expressions in court. Cotton candy was invented by a dentist. A New Orleans hotel offered a $15,000 stay to a whoever stole the "most outrageous" item from them.  It would only take one hour to drive to space. A cornflake in the shape of Illinois sold on eBay for $1,350. A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds. The Queen owns all the swans in England. A fortune cookie company once foretold the lottery, resulting in 110 winners. Bumblebees can fly higher than Mount Everest. Someone tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. A human could swim through a blue whale's veins. .