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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McDonald's did away with its spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.
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The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.
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The Russian Army's favorite marching song is the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song.
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30% of Chinese adults live with their parents.
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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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Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts.
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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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