The Weirdest and Most Controversial Fashion Statements to Date

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• War pigs were used in ancient warfare to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.
• In the late 1600s, London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout "Spanko!" before running away.
• Hippos have the largest mouths of any animal on land.
• In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer called Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty. He was.