These Bizarre Phenomenons Prove That Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction

This Town Has Been on Fire for 50 Years

Very few residents remain in Centralia, Pennsylvania. Why? Well, for starters, the once-bustling mining town has been on fire for over five decades. In 1962, the Centralia city council proposed an idea to clean up a local landfill in time for Memorial Day festivities.

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The More You Know

  • May 22nd is the least common birth date.
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
  • T-shirts were originally made for unmarried men who didn't know how to sew buttons on collared shirts.
  • The youngest parents in the world were aged 8 and 9.
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