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For The Wizard of Oz, 16-year-old actress Judy Garland was forced to take on a diet of chicken soup, coffee, and 80 cigarettes a day

Source: http://factourism.com/source/dorothy-diet

Llama droppings has been used to purify water in Bolivia

Source: http://factourism.com/source/llama-water

Honey doesn’t spoil

Source: http://factourism.com/source/honey-expiration

Christmas used to be illegal in the US

Source: http://factourism.com/source/illegal-christmas

Jellyfish evaporate

Source: http://factourism.com/source/evaporated-jellyfish

Bananas are radioactive

Source: http://factourism.com/source/radioactive-bananas

A cigar half-smoked by Winston Churchill sold for $12,000

Source: http://factourism.com/source/churchill-cigar

Until 1948, 7-Up contained a mood stabiliser used to treat bipolar disorder

Source: http://factourism.com/source/7-up-and-down

Scientists are working on fungi-based computers

Source: http://factourism.com/source/fungi-computer

You are one or two centimetres taller when you get out of bed in the morning

Source: http://factourism.com/source/taller-morning

Pandas can fake pregnancies

Source: http://factourism.com/source/panda-pregnancy

Crows can hold grudges

Source: http://factourism.com/source/crow-grudge

Trained pigeons can identify breast cancer in mammograms as accurately as human experts

Source: http://factourism.com/source/pigeon-mammogram

For 20 years, the mayor of Talkeetna in Alaska was cat called Stubbs

Source: http://factourism.com/source/mayor-cat

A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers on a hot air balloon

Source: http://factourism.com/source/balloon-animals

There is a polar bear jail in Canada

Queen Elizabeth was a mechanic during WWII

A lemon will float in water, but a lime will sink

Canada has a strategic maple syrup reserve

There is a Scottish tartan designed for Mars exploration