Facts are stranger than fiction. And who doesn't love strange, right? That said, I bring to you 15 facts that you won't believe are true. So, get ready to be amazed, bewildered and overall confused. This is WhatTheFacts, raiser of eyebrows and teller of facts. Enjoy!

1. In Japan, you can hire a handsome man to watch sentimental movies with you and wipe away your tears.

2. Heroin was once given to children as a substitute for morphine, and was also used to alleviate coughing fits in young children.

3. In 1912, a Paris orphanage held a raffle to raise money - the prizes were live babies.

4.Scientists have discovered glass pyramids 6000 feet underwater. They are presumed to be larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza.

5. In China, any TV shows and films featuring time travel are censored.

6. Greenland is Icy and Iceland is Green.

7. In France, you can marry a dead person. (Only if he/she can prove that they intended to marry in the first place)

8. There are giant pools of water floating in space, holding 140 trillion times the mass of water in the Earth’s oceans.

9. Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn.

10. There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.

11. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

12. A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.

13. Avacados are poisonous to birds.

14. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

15. The founders of Google were willing to sell Google for $1 million to Excite in 1999, but Excite turned them down. Google is now worth $527 Billion.

P.S. WhatTheFacts is a series where I present the most strangest and bizarre facts that one might think are false but are actually true.

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