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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The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
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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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Omar bin Laden (Osama's son) was denied citizenship in Britain in 2007 because "Omar failed to provide his father's permanent address".
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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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