The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
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McDonald's did away with its spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.
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The Prince Charle Cinema in London has volunteer "ninjas" that hush obnoxious moviegoers.
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Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
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In 1974, prankster Porky Bickar was so into April Fools, he flew hundreds of tires into a dormant volcano in Alaska and set them on fire - fooling the local populace and coast guard into thinking the volcano was active.
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On April Fool's Day in 1977, the UK newspaper The Guardian ran a 7 page feature on the discovery of the fictitious island nation of "San Seriffe."
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