A 60-year old truck driver sued the Tokyo hospital, where he was born after discovering that he was accidentally switched with another newborn in 1953.

He ended up with a poor single mother while the other baby grew up to own a real estate company under his rich biological parents.

The hospital was ordered by court to pay ¥38m (£227,000) for damages.

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One of Leonardo Davinci's students painted a naked version of Mona Lisa.

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Engagement rings are often worn on the fourth finger of the left hand because the ancient Greeks maintained that that finger contains the vena amoris, or the “vein of love,” that runs straight to the heart.

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Drinking alcohol improves your ability to speak a foreign language.

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In 2017, a Brazilian great-grandmother discovered the figure of St Anthony that she’d prayed to for years was actually an elf from The Lord of the Rings.

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Herrings communicate through farts.

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In 2007, the Australian government spent about $84 million on a porn filter

A 16-year-old boy named Tom Wood cracked the filter in about 30 minutes.

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Egyptian Pharaohs were once required to masturbate into the River Nile to keep its flow cycle stable. The event was known as the Fertility Festival.

The Fertility festival or Min festival was part of ritual at the end of the year where, the pharaoh would masturbate then ejaculate into the river, making sure that his semen flowed with the current.

After the pharaoh, other men would then come over and release their seeds as well.The entire process was believed to have brought more prosperity and blessings to the people.

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11% of the world's gold reserves are held by Indian households.

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South Korean plastic surgeons are so skilled that people from China and Japan who visit the country for surgeries have trouble re-entering because their faces no longer match their passport photographs.

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Groaking is a word for staring at someone while they are eating in the hope that they will give you some of their food.

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In Norway, to change your last name to one that fewer than 200 people have, you must ask permission from everyone that has that name.

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One of the oldest people on earth, Batuli Lamichhane, is a 119-year-old woman in Nepal who has smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for the last 100 years.

She says the secret to long life is to be active and stress free. She also advices smokers to avoid 'commercially made' cigarettes. Instead, she recommends locally made 'beedis' - tobacco wrapped in tendu leaf.

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The first thing ever bought and sold across the Internet was a bag of marijuana around 1971.

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In December 2020, a man from Kazakhstan legally married his sex doll after 2 years of dating. Yurii Tolochko dated his sex dolls for eight months before he proposed to her in 2019 and finally married her on December 2020.

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In the 1800s, the country now known as Vietnam asked the Qing dynasty to change their name to "Nam Việt". The dynasty said no, and changed their name to "Việt Nam" instead.

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