Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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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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The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
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The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
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Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.
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Take your height and divide by eight. That's how tall your head is!
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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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