There's a café in France which charges €7 for a coffee to rude customers and €1.40 to people who talk politely to staff.
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In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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In 1996, an Iraqi man named Sam Eisho moved to Australia and used the welfare system as income. Some years later, he became successful and wrote a cheque for more than $18,000 to the Australian Government (every cent they gave him).
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In Mexico, artists can pay their taxes using artwork that they create.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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There's a road in Lancaster, CA that has grooves carved in such a way that when you drive over them at 55 MPH, they will play a part of Rossini's "The William Tell Overture."
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