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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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    Anti-Comet Pills
    Anti-Comet Pills
    In 1910, as Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet, people bought "Anti-Comet Pills", special "comet umbrellas", and gas masks, because there was public hysteria that all life on Earth would be destroyed by gas - called cyanogen - that was detected in the tail.
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    Nooglers
    Nooglers
    New Google employees are called "Nooglers", and are given a propeller beanie cap to wear on their first Friday.
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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 2012, a Chinese gamer's father was so concerned about his son's habit, he hired virtual hitmen to kill off his avatar.
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    A group of officers is called a mess.
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