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The odd quirk in the Presidential Line of Succession -- going from Executive Branch (Vice President) to Legislative Branch (President Pro Tempore, Speaker of the House) -- was initially created to specifically keep Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, out of the line of succession.
Charles Darwin was seriously ill for much of his life. He was known to vomit up to 20 times a day. Forcibly made into a recluse by his illness, he would write to colleagues begging them for "oddly specific" samples which were later used as evidence of evolution in his specimens.
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A serial killer created a hotel (which included a maze of over 100 windowless rooms with doorways opening to brick walls, oddly-angled hallways, stairways to nowhere) with murder specifically in mind, killing over 200+ people
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Anorak" is British slang for a person with oddly specific, obsessive interests (trainspotting, stamp collecting etc.)
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In 1979 the U.S. had specific days to get gas based on if you're license plate ended in an odd or even number.
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Porsche has an oddly "specific official" way of aligning the center cap on their wheels on all their cars.
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There is a town in Canada with the oddly specific name of Dildo
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Canada has oddly specific pricing for Human Slaves.
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Most tennis balls aren't labelled as white and yellow or white and green, rather white and an oddly specific color known as "optic yellow".
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The Sega Dreamcast's internal clock will reach its limit in 2085. Oddly specific.
