The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
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In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The starting price was $0.01 AUD and managed to reach $3000 before eBay closed the auction.
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Author Ian McEwan helped his son write his A-level English exam about one of his own novels, Enduring Love. The teacher disagreed with his interpretation.
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Britney Spears’ music is used by the British Navy to scare off Somali pirates.
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More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.
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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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30% of Chinese adults live with their parents.
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