To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
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Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts.
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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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More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.
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Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
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In 1974, prankster Porky Bickar was so into April Fools, he flew hundreds of tires into a dormant volcano in Alaska and set them on fire - fooling the local populace and coast guard into thinking the volcano was active.
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