Students at the John Hopkins University collaboratively decided to opt out of their final since the professor set his curve based on the highest score grading it as 100%. They chose to receive a score of zero, making it the highest grade and thereby getting 100%.
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To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
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A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
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Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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In the UK, there's a guy named 'Major Dickie Head'.
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