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    Drunken Poker Name Change
    Drunken Poker Name Change
    In 2009, a drunk New Zealander lost a poker bet and had his name changed to "Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova". He found out that it was accepted 5 years later after receiving a confirmation letter.
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    The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
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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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    The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.
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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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    Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
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    Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
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    There is a town in Pennsylvania named Intercourse.
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